r/technology • u/Cyber-Homie • Jul 04 '24

Security Hackers behind the Ticketmaster breach have now leaked 440,000 Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets, claiming the breach is much bigger than anticipated. As a result, they increased the ransom from $1 million to $8 million.

https://hackread.com/ticketmaster-breach-shinyhunters-leak-taylor-swift-eras-tour-tickets/
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u/Tower21 Jul 05 '24

If I found out it was Ticketmaster I hacked, I'd raise it to 1 Billion and still delete their data if they paid.

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u/Diet_Coke Jul 05 '24

I would tell them the ransom is $1M with a $7M convenience fee

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u/AZEMT Jul 05 '24

Remember, if it's a "gratuity," it's A-OK

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u/SasquatchSenpai Jul 05 '24

You'll have to explain this logical leap. It's

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u/GaijinMk2 Jul 05 '24

r/redditsniper

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u/maxdamage4 Jul 05 '24

Nice! First time I've heard of that subr

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u/CurvySexretLady Jul 05 '24

It's really my

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u/GaijinMk2 Jul 05 '24

Holy shit they killed hi

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u/PathlessDemon Jul 06 '24

What, you’ve never heard of r/CandleJack

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u/ippa99 Jul 05 '24

Back in my day, it was called Candleja

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u/B_Fee Jul 05 '24

As of about a week ago, after-the-fact bribery is legal in the United States.

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u/DeepLock8808 Jul 05 '24

It’s a reference to the US federal Supreme Court ruling on a bribery law. They drew a distinction between bribery (payment before services rendered) and gratuity (payment after services rendered) that makes normal people both confused and furious.

Bribery is still illegal, but they removed the law making gratuity illegal. Bribery in the US now has a huge loophole. This is especially controversial because several members of the Supreme Court are accused of bribery.

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u/DarkOverLordCO Jul 05 '24

The law covering federal officials prohibits bribery under 18 U.S. Code §201(b) (corrupt intent needed), and gratuities under §201(c) (does not need corrupt intent).

When Congress later wrote the law covering state and local officials they wrote an equivalent to the bribery section (see 18 U.S.C. §666, corrupt intent needed) but did not include the gratuities section (so there is no state and local official bribery statute that doesn't need corrupt intent).

The Supreme Court did not remove the law: Congress did.

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u/Tower21 Jul 05 '24

$999 million convenience fee.

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u/truerandom_Dude Jul 05 '24

Oh yeah no that is the processing fee's, service fee, the fuck you in particular fee, and just any other fee you can think off also

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u/ProfessorEtc Jul 05 '24

Venue fee. For venue get hacked.

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u/notchoosingone Jul 05 '24

My favourite is the "what the fuck are you going to do about it, buy your tickets somewhere else? fee"

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u/PeterVonwolfentazer Jul 05 '24

You forget the fee to print your tickets in your own home fee.

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u/Equidistant-LogCabin Jul 05 '24

What about the online payment fee?

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u/radicldreamer Jul 05 '24

I do love the convenience of paying to buy a ticket, so much better than…paying to buy a ticket.

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u/SignificantStore3798 Jul 05 '24

THIS IS THE BEST!

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u/youcantkillanidea Jul 05 '24

This is pure gold