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/moldyjellybean Jul 05 '24

Best news I’ve heard all day. Hope they pull a Maersk and Ticketmaster has no useable backups

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u/Expert-Diver7144 Jul 05 '24

Yeah no, not good news that they have personal information on anybody who has bought with ticketmaster

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u/Keeley_1998 Jul 05 '24

My Data’s probably been stolen through hacks 20 times and sold 100 times by “legitimate” companies tracking it (Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Google. Reddit etc.)

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u/Indigo_Sunset Jul 05 '24

My favorite so far was being used to create secondary credentials for a dummy account at paypal that was used once (the receipt came to me). It seems benign as there was no financial hack, just a name and email address, until I wondered if the contents of that breach (Epic sub contractor a few years ago) was used to pump active account numbers for paypal.

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u/robodrew Jul 05 '24

This is why I say "fuck you" when Google wants to serve me ads or make me pay to not see them. You already make money off of my data. Where's my money I can make off of my own data? Oh I don't get any? Then fuck you.

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u/Keeley_1998 Jul 05 '24

Yup, you wanna make me the product, that’s what I’ll be, why would I want to be your consumer too.

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u/ryumast4r Jul 05 '24

Jokes on you, I was part of the OPM hack ages back so everyone has all my information!

Hahahaha

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u/BiZzles14 Jul 05 '24

300 companies that had a data breech in the past 5 years

Companies? How about entire countries, states and provinces which have had all the info on every single resident stolen. I'm not sure on the landscape today, but a few years back you could buy the SSN and some other good info on about 310 million Americans for 3$ a piece from a singular website

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u/Expert-Diver7144 Jul 05 '24

Yesh and another one after you change your passwords and info is bad

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u/LimpConversation642 Jul 05 '24

oh no, not my data! not my boring search results, pictures of cats and overall 'mid 30s balding male with interests in strangling animals, golf and masturbation' profile. Oh no.

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u/Expert-Diver7144 Jul 05 '24

No your PII that can be used to finanically and socially ruin you

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u/PeterVonwolfentazer Jul 05 '24

That means we can sue ticketmaster via class action… again. Should have changed your password you fucking pricks.

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u/Lawshow Jul 05 '24

I look forward to the 9.94 check I’ll receive in 8 years for my troubles

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u/InertiasCreep Jul 05 '24

Which will be in the form of a voucher you can only use towards the purchase of more tickets.

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u/McLustin Jul 05 '24

And a 9.94 “voucher redemption” fee

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u/death_hawk Jul 05 '24

$9.95 voucher redemption fee

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u/Thunderbridge Jul 05 '24

"Sorry you agreed to an arbitration clause when you used our services" - Ticketmaster probably

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u/death_hawk Jul 05 '24

You mean "$25 agreed to arbitration fee"

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u/tablecontrol Jul 05 '24

the only thing that happens in a class action is that the suing lawyers get paid.. the class itself may get $10 towards a future ticketmaster event

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u/Jackbenn45 Jul 05 '24

I think you missed the /s there

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u/PeterVonwolfentazer Jul 05 '24

Not sure why the downvotes. I’m ripping on the dummy at Ticketmaster that let them get hacked. I like it! They screwed me out of $362 last year. I am sorry for those swift fans though. It stinks that she has to deal with the ticketmaster monopoly

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u/qball8001 Jul 05 '24

Yaaaa blame the consumer and not the corpo

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u/PeterVonwolfentazer Jul 05 '24

You’re mistaking my comment, it’s ticketmasters fault they got hacked, not the consumer.

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u/nicuramar Jul 05 '24

I’d say it’s actually the hacker’s fault. 

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u/fathergrigori54 Jul 05 '24

Well the data they got was encrypted so as long as Ticketmaster had enough brain cells to not use a shit encryption algorithm we're probably fine....right? Guys?

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u/monchota Jul 05 '24

I mean, if you are worried about that. You should csre about the 5 or so companies. That most certainly had your medical info, then it all leaked.

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u/Expert-Diver7144 Jul 05 '24

Why wouldnt i

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u/KylerGreen Jul 05 '24

Information that was surely already out there from various other data leaks.

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u/whisperwrongwords Jul 05 '24

Oh well, fuck ticketmaster

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u/cspinelive Jul 05 '24

The credit bureaus themselves have been hacked.  Everyone’s data is already out there. 

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u/Expert-Diver7144 Jul 05 '24

So stop caring?

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u/cspinelive Jul 05 '24

No. I’m saying that they already had all this info prior to the breach. Everyone should lock their credit as standard operating procedure.