Ticketfly Temporarily Shuts Down To Investigate 'Cyber Incident'

Earlier today, ticket distribution service Ticketfly shut down after a "cyber incident" compromised its systems. A hacker reportedly defaced the company's website and claimed to have compromised the "backstage" database where festivals, promoters and venues manage their events. Engadget reports: The intrusion might have started through Ticketfly's Wordpress blog -- the hacker claimed to have downloaded and posted this on Ticketfly's site before it was taken down. The firm hasn't said when it expects services to return to normal, and it has yet to gauge the full extent of the breach. It took everything down out of an "abundance of caution," according to a spokesperson. According to Motherboard, the hacker apparently demanded a single bitcoin to divulge the vulnerability that left Ticketfly open to attack. You can view the FAQ page for more information on the incident.

You know, just once

[bobstreo]

I'd like a company to apologize for being short sighted and cheaping out on security for short term financial gains.

Not that it will ever happen.

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[Errol backfiring]

But, but, We never cheap out on securities on the stock market!

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[Anonymous Coward]

I'd like if just once, idiots online would stop pretending like an infant could 100% secure a website.

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[Nidi62]

I'd like a company to apologize for being short sighted and cheaping out on security for short term financial gains.

Not that it will ever happen.

Wouldn't admitting fault like that set them up for easy litigation?

Re: You know, just once

[phantomfive]

They most likely don't have anyone on their team who knows how to write secure software, and probably couldn't hire someone even if they wanted to. "Write secure software" is probably the rarest software skill there is. There aren't many people like DJB, although there are a few.

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[MiniMike]

It could be because "ciber" is too close to "cider" and all the stories about "cider-security incidents" and "cider-security threats" would make people who read too quickly worry about wtf was going on in apple orchards, and do they need to surround their orchards with more trees like those "firwalls" they keep hearing about? Chaos, panic, and a poor apple harvest would have soon followed.

That's why they chose y.

There's yer problem!

[cascadingstylesheet]

Well, there's yer problem! You're doing this on that i-Cyber internet thingie!