Hackers Claim To Have Breached Ticketmaster, Stealing Personal Data of 560 Million Users (hackread.com) 34
The notorious hacker group ShinyHunters has claimed to have breached the security of Ticketmaster-Live Nation, compromising the personal data more than half a billion users. "This massive 1.3 terabytes of data, is now being offered for sale on Breach Forums for a one-time sale for $500,000," reports Hackread. From the report: ShinyHunters has allegedly accessed a treasure trove of sensitive user information, including full names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, ticket sales and event details, order information, and partial payment card data. Specifically, the compromised payment data includes customer names, the last four digits of card numbers, expiration dates, and even customer fraud details. The data breach, if confirmed, could have severe implications for the affected users, leading to potential identity theft, financial fraud, and further cyber attacks. The hacker group's bold move to put this data on sale goes on to show the growing menace of cybercrime and the increasing sophistication of these cyber adversaries.
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That's the final straw. For all future ticket purchases, I'm switching from Ticketmaster to... oh... wait....
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Ha, I've never used Ticketmaster or Live Nation, jokes on you hackers! Oh wait, what's this email about a security breach from AT&T ... shit.
Re:Alt (Score:4, Interesting)
bravo USDOJ anti-trust division (Score:2)
Bravo, US anti-trust laws and an executive branch administration with the responsibility and public decency to enforce the law.
Re: Alt (Score:1, Interesting)
RGI Events, Expo Group, Best, Live, Raybloch, Grupo, Eventbrite, there are plenty of event managers out there if you are not looking for a Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster deals with a handful of events for a handful of big corporate names, but 99.99% of the population doesnâ(TM)t really care about ever seeing Taylor Swift, let alone forking over $2000 for the privilege. The fact anyone cares the rich are overspending on their favorite Disney stars shows you really donâ(TM)t have a clue what being poor
Re: Alt (Score:5, Insightful)
The issue at hand is not that Ticketmaster is just an event handling company but they literally own about 150 venues as well as exclusivity contracts with several others. If you are a small to midsize band and you want to play those mid size venues like your House of Blues or couple thousand person concert halls they pretty much kinda have both the bands and consumers by the balls.
I remember in the mid 90's Pearl Jam was on a boycott of Ticketmaster since even 30 years ago they knew it was a monopoly operator but they got to do that since they were one of the biggest acts at the time but even they eventually had to relent, and this was before the LiveNation merger.
Ticketmaster is a company that on it's surface is supposed to provide some moments of joy for everyone, everybody has a band they would love to see live, that's a great experience, some great moments in my life have been seeing bands I enjoy, live music is traditionally something for the masses, not just the rich and Ticketmaster just makes life miserable for everyone.
Re: Alt (Score:1)
150 venues worldwide? Really? There are more than 300 venues in an average mid-sized city, New York and LA have over 1000. Seriously, just donâ(TM)t go to those 100 events. Are you also pissed you arent rich enough to be invited to the Met Gala?
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Can you provide your metric for that? Where is this cataloged? What's a mid sized city? What's a venue by this estimation? Nice ad-hom though, really makes your case, very convincing. Then again you did compare Eventbrite to fucking Ticketmaster so who knows if we are even on the same planet.
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Most cities I've lived in or know about have 1 or 2 venues where larger acts can play. A few larger ones might have more but when I keep trying to think of venues I used to see shows in in those cities I keep thinking of ones that are closed or don't even exist - and one is now a megachurch. It's still The Summit to me.
They may have plenty of clubs for smaller acts but in the cities where I've lived if they're nationally known but can't fill a stadium there might be a half a dozen or so - maybe twic
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Ticketmaster/LiveNation also OWN a large number of venues both large and small meaning that if you want to see an artist (even smaller ones with tickets only $30 range) there's a good chance there isn't an alternative in your area.
Re: Alt (Score:1)
Plenty of alternatives in any city. Ticketmaster deals with the corporate of the corporate.
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That's not really how music works though. If 9/10 venues are owned by livenation and the others are focused on only heavy metal or classical, then you can either skip live shows or you have to use ticketmaster (assuming you're not looking for heavy metal or classical). People also like certain performers and to see them, it often means a venue that uses ticket master.
As an example, I recently went to see a podcast part of a cooperative network live and the venue used ticketmaster. That's basically the fu
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The problem is it's not 9/10, it is not even 1/10. They own 100 venues worldwide. You really think there are only 110 large venues worldwide?
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Should have said a combination of the venues they own with the ones they have exclusive contracts with.
And no, I'm not travelling 300 miles to avoid using ticketmaster, neither are you
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I've never been to a TicketMaster event, because I don't follow the big names. They don't have exclusive contracts with venues, they have contracts with artists. If you don't want to pay TicketMaster to go to a Swift concert, then tell Taylor Swift to stop contracting with them, but that would not be lucrative for Ms. Swift because they do a lot more than just renting out the hall and she'd have to find a better contract with someone else or do the work internally (and hire a bunch of people to do it).
There
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Lucky you to have that luxury I guess!
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Since when did people become entitled to see a big name artist? I've seen various big acts in my day (incl. Meatloaf and Michael Jackson), never once did I use TicketMaster eventing because neither of them had contracted with TicketMaster.
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As I said, it's not just big name artists, it's even in smaller venues with lesser known groups. Sounds like you're lucky and there are alternatives around you, but that's not always the case
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Microsoft Tickets!
That's why they're called: "Ticketmaster." (Score:1)
- We can't call ourselves "Ticketmaster," it's offensive. It should be Ticketmain or Mainticket.
- No, that implies that there is a main option but then there are alternatives. We want to make people understand they are our bitches. Thus, "Ticketmaster."
Re: Alt (Score:2)
I figure this just means theyâ(TM)re going to add a âoedata securityâ fee to all future ticket sales.
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That's the final straw. For all future ticket purchases, I'm switching from Ticketmaster to... oh... wait....
If only there were a law, a general regulation to protect data, that had actual teeth so that in this breech they could be fined into compliance or oblivion... I suspect many would prefer the latter.
EUre sure that it'll never take off though.
Compensation (Score:1)
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Please pay 5% booking fee and 2.5% credit card surcharge. Would you like to purchase insurance? Consider donating to our tax write-off scheme.
upcomeing scams with this info can be like you nee (Score:2)
upcomeing scams with this info can be like you need to get an gift card now or you can lose your tickets!
Good thing... (Score:2)
I haven't attended a ticketmaster concert in well over a decade. Any credit cards listed would be long expired.
I gave up on seeing live shows due to the price, and the fact that they have legitimized scalping through their resale interface.
Back when Katy Perry was the hot ticket item, I tried to get some tickets for my daughter's birthday, at the moment they went on sale. The site kept crashing while going through the process, and by the time I was able to successfully get to the end of the process, every
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Gotta admit it's harder and harder to go see live music today. My wife's band is the Violent Femme's. We saw them in 2021-ish last time they toured. About $80 each, not bad today. They are on tour again, she wanted to go, I said sure but the "all in" Ticketmaster price is now $150 for standing room and it's not always the band as Robert Smith was going on about last year:
The Cure’s Robert Smith convinces Ticketmaster to refund ‘unduly high’ fees after fan anger [theguardian.com]
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I haven't attended a ticketmaster concert in well over a decade. Any credit cards listed would be long expired.
Unless you also moved house and changed name your credit card is the least of your worries here.
I gave up on seeing live shows due to the price
You sound quite basic - the type of person who only goes and see major big acts from famous bands currently charting in the top 10 on radio. The overwhelming majority of shows are not expensive. My last transaction with ticket master was 15EUR - I paid more for the train too and from the venue than the concert. There are many amazing live shows in your city *EVERY DAY*. There's more to the live music world than T
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I checked out prices for Beat (Steve Vai, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Danny Carey). They're playing '80s King Crimson and while the musicians are all well known and will probably attract a wide range of fans they're hardly top 10 radio material. Are they even radio material at all?
I still need to buy tickets but they're about $150 and up. per ticket.
You said you paid in Euros so I assume you're in Europe. Was it a band we might have heard of? Or was it a small local band?
560 Million Users? (Score:1)
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I did not know that Taylor Swift had that many fans ... but now I guess it's true !
Ummmm, trust me on this, that's an under-count.
"I once believed love would be burning red, but it's golden" (Taylor Swift from her song "Daylight")
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Can I buy this through Ticketmaster? (Score:2)