Ticketmaster Hacked—Half A Billion Concert-Goers Allegedly Affected
Ticketmaster has reportedly been hacked.
Recently, Ticketmaster has been in hot water with concert-goers. Ever Since Live Nation merged with Ticketmaster in 2010, it has created a monopoly, making attending concerts increasingly tricky. Ticketmaster has been called out for ticket buyers’ ongoing struggles with bots, scalpers, sky-high prices, dynamic pricing, etc.
Last week, the U.S. Justice Department filed an antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster, intending to break up the ticketing conglomerate’s alleged monopoly. Yet, while this is ongoing, a hacker group has now targeted Ticketmaster and its customers.
The U.S. Justice Department is expected to file a lawsuit against Live Nation–Ticketmaster today, claiming they have illegally stifled competition, Deadline reports. pic.twitter.com/hxDd5vDHTb
— Pop Base (@PopBase) May 23, 2024
Live look at the signup list to testify against Ticketmaster pic.twitter.com/8vFP6KZJeF
— Vic Vela (@VicVela1) May 23, 2024
This ticketmaster lawsuit cannot come soon enough. Break up the whole company, hire better engineers. Get them TFO. Trying to buy US Open Tickets for the past 47 mins = impossible but somehow there are tons of resale. F this and yall pickleball players
— Cherizza (@CherizzaL) May 28, 2024
According to Hackread and Cyber Daily, “notorious hacker group” ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen around 560 million Ticketmaster customers’ data from Ticketmaster. Their goal is to sell the “1.3 terabyte-sized trove of data for a one-time price of $500,000 on a popular hacking forum.”
Unfortunately, this breach allegedly includes Ticketmaster users’ full names, phone numbers, email addresses, order history information, ticket purchase details, addresses, and even “partial payment data which includes names, the last four digits of their credit card numbers, and card expiration dates.”
Breaking: #Ticketmaster has allegedly been hacked by ShinyHunters, extracting 560M user details, ticket sales, orders, event info, and card data, per Hackread's @WAK4S. The total data is over 1.3 TB as per the hacker – There is a post about it on the #BreachForums as well. pic.twitter.com/jDmqunvl14
— Hackread.com (@HackRead) May 28, 2024
ticketmaster got hacked. credit card deets just out there in the ether. love that
— lauren (@flynnryder) May 29, 2024
The personal data of millions of Ticketmaster customers is up for sale on the "dark web", after the entertainment giant was allegedly hacked. @KateCreedon9 #9News pic.twitter.com/vTGfsj5IbH
— 9News Australia (@9NewsAUS) May 29, 2024
Both Mashable and ShinyHunters attempted to contact Ticketmaster about the reported breach but have not received a response at the time of writing. In the meantime, you might want to update your passwords, delete your credit card info, or even delete your accounts (unless you currently have concert tickets).
