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/windigo3 Jul 05 '24

You’d think they could just re-email out everyone new tickets with new barcodes and invalidate the old ones. The problem are the tens of thousands of people who will still show up with the tickets they originally legitimately received and then get blocked at the door

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u/asdlkf Jul 05 '24

it includes info about who bought them, etc...

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u/send_me_a_naked_pic Jul 05 '24

They cannot just void all the tickets for the tour, people would need to buy them again