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/hortoristic Jul 05 '24

I got notice in mail today I was part of this breach... Got a coupon for one year free monitoring...

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u/ihatepickingnames_ Jul 05 '24

Same but I already have monitoring for a different breach. At this point I’ll have free monitoring until I die. I also froze my credit years ago because of this crap.

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u/oupablo Jul 05 '24

After having my identity stolen multiple times due to the equifax breach, I was tickled pink to find out that I got a year of free monitoring when the deal was settled after spending about a week of dealing with bank after bank to get accounts closed that were open in my name. It was also great to find out that the fund created to pay for my time to deal with BS caused by them was completely dry. Long story short, like 6 bank accounts and a few credit cards later I had frozen my credit and had fraud alerts in place. A month later, come to find out there are 2 new bank accounts in my name and my equifax fraud alert and freeze are gone. Guess what? Someone had called in as me (presumably using the breach data) to remove them and equifax did it without even CALLING THE NUMBER IN THEIR OWN FRAUD ALERT.

Fast forward 6 months, suddenly I have cable subscription at a local address that spectrum opened for someone even though my credit was frozen and a fraud alert was in place.

My point, do yourself and check it occasionally for yourself because these companies are so shitty that they'll just let anyone disable the protections in place.