Ticketmaster hacked. 560 million customers data being held hostage.

[BigRedChief]

This has become public so I’ll post here.

Ticketmaster owner Live Nation confirmed "unauthorised activity" on its database after a group of hackers said they had stolen the personal details of 560 million customers.

ShinyHunters, the group claiming responsibility, says the stolen data includes names, addresses, phone numbers and partial credit card details from Ticketmaster users worldwide.

The hacking group is reportedly demanding a $500,000 (£400,000) ransom payment to prevent the data from being sold to other parties.
In a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Live Nation said that on 27 May "a criminal threat actor offered what it alleged to be Company user data for sale via the dark web", and that it was investigating.
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The number of customers affected by the data breach has not been confirmed by Live Nation.

The Ticketmaster breach was first revealed by hackers who posted an advert for the data on Wednesday evening. Ticketmaster refused to confirm it to reporters or customers and instead notified shareholders late on Friday.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by ptlyon

Only $500,000?

They're probably getting ready for a trip to the grocery store.

[Jewish Rabbi]

scho will be in here to defend them as soon as his 45 minutes with the hooker is up

[Spott]

Originally Posted by Jewish Rabbi

scho will be in here to defend them as soon as his 45 minutes with the hooker is up

Damn, that’s a waste of 43 minutes.

[KCJake]

Originally Posted by notorious

That's without the service fees.

Love it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by notorious

That's without the service fees.

Yeah, I hate the hackers, but it would be kind of cool if they structured their ransom demand as:

$300,000 - base ransom demand
$73,000 - convenience fee
$47,000 - online service fee
$29,000 - state and local tax avoidance fees
$15,000 - password defeating fee
$14,000 - miscellaneous anti-regulatory fees
$7,000 - narc disposal fee
$6,000 - anti-security measures
$4,000 - online pornography subscription coverage fee
$3,000 - phishing email distribution fee
$2,000 - law enforcement avoidance fee

Total: $500,000.

[Spott]

At least Ticketmaster didn’t wait 2 years to tell everyone about it like AT&T did.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by TLO

BRC with the flex

I actually was up for a job with them when I was first starting out with cloud security. Only the first interview, then ghosted. Every single cloud I built from scratch hasn't been hacked or compromised.

It helped that I spent a year of my life restoring these large companies data. Not a single one ever announced it to the public or their shareholders. Never told the government. And no violation of laws happened. When these big business's get to write their own governing laws, this is just part of the system.

[BigRedChief]

Originally Posted by Lzen

Look, I'm all about sticking it to Ticketmaster. Still, this is not unique to TM. This has been happening to all kinds of places , some with which I have done business. It is becoming an epidemic. It doesn't seem to matter how careful I have been to protect my identity. These businesses get hacked and now you're out on the dark web. And they just give you a free subscription to identity protection for a year. It's complete and utter bullshit.

And it will continue to happen because the suits running these companies give lip service to protect their and your data.

My data has been hacked from 4 different companies. It doesn't have to be this way.

I, by myself, can set up from scratch an architecture that will secure every piece of data. Every ID. And the path from login to their stuff in 6 months. But, we ain't cheap because of supply and demand issues with this skillset. Also another issue is companies use to pay a price for compromising your data. Not anymore, they get some bad publicity but the vast majority stay with the hacked company. In this case since its a monopoly, we have no choice but to use their service.