Live Nation, Ticketmaster Confirms Hack Affecting More Than 500 Million Customers

The ticketing company confirmed on Friday that personal information and credit card details were stolen by a hacker group.

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Thank the stars above they don't have a monopoly in their industry as so many people would be affected that way.
Live Nation also added in the filing that they did not believe the data hacking would have “a material impact on our overall business operations or on our financial condition or results of operations.”

I ran that through some translation software and it came back: "The only people affected are the ones we don't care about."
- I read it more as not who was affected but what was affected. So something like "thanks Zeus we only lost people's home addresses and passwords so the worst that can happen is someone getting murdered, it could have been credit card numbers and then the banks would demand things that cost money".
  
  The breach was first revealed on Tuesday on a forum called BreachForums where the group said they had data of 560 million Ticketmaster customers, including credit card numbers and ticket sales.
  
  (Emphasis mine)
- Really? I got "people don't have a choice in the matter, so they're still going to buy tickets from us" from the statement.
  
  Being a monopoly means your customers don't really have a competitor they can go to when you shit the bed.
Nice try, hackers. All the cards I've used on Ticketmaster are maxed out!
Well for the first time ever I started seeing "all-in" pricing on TicketMaster. So not sure how true that Onion articel was but it's funny.

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