The hacking group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility and is seeking $500 million
ShinyHunters posted on Tuesday night in a hacking forum that it obtained data from Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, including customers’ names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and order details, Cyber Daily wrote. The group is reportedly attempting to sell the stolen data for $500 million.
It said 1.3 terabytes of customer data possessed by Ticketmaster including names, addresses, credit card numbers, phone numbers and payment details is up for sale.
heh, you don't know how true this is. I've worked in IT for 2 decades. IT is pretty much always seen as a cost center.
If everything is running smoothly - "what are we paying you for?!"
If everything is on fire - " What are we paying you for!?"
And now with companies getting the tiniest of slaps on the wrists for willful negligence it's cheaper to cut IT funding, outsource it, whatever.
If the cost of the fine is less than the profits gained by doing "x" then that's just the cost of doing business. Execs will continue to do this until there are real consequences for the company and them directly.
Meanwhile, earlier this month, I had to literally disable quite a few bits of adblocks and other extensions just so that Ticketmaster's crappy CAPTCHA thing would allow me to even log in. Literally screamed "Why are you pestering me, I'm just trying to buy a ticket to a local car show, not a fucking Madonna concert"
Oh last year I paid the ticket in cash, 20€, no problem. This year? 20€, plus 1+bits euros of processing fees. To "deliver" my ticket to the platform of my choice. (...Mobile app.)
So I went to the car show. They still had the cash booth. Mild failure to communicate. I just dodged the field of view of the booth guys, out of shame, and entered like normal, glad the ticket guards were accommodating.
Oh I forgot the best part! When I was trying to log on and the security interfered with CAPTCHAs, Ticketmaster reset my password several times. That's how you know this company take security seriously. /s (Literally no site does this.)
Not by venues the size that are whored out to TM, is an option. Just because something is slammed at you 1m times by radio, advertisers, YouTube, etc., you can still choose the music you listen to and like.
My brokeass can't do shit so I will just give you an upvote. Bank refused to give me loan because of my credit rating. The funny part is I never had a credit card or any other loan. Later I found out my that Tangerine Telecom fucked me by giving my data to hackers and someone used my info to get a credit card.