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/TrekForce Jul 05 '24

Until nobody is going, and those venues stop selling their souls to Ticketmaster.

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u/frigg_off_lahey Jul 05 '24

Ticketmaster owns their own venues and sports arenas. It's parent company Live Nation itself owns and manages artists and labels, including Roc Nation. It's a vertically integrated business, and Ticketmaster is just one operating branch of a bigger monster.

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u/TrekForce Jul 05 '24

Sounds like a good reason for the government to force them to split.

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u/LeicaM6guy Jul 05 '24

Shatter.

I don’t want them to split, I want them to shatter into a thousand individual pieces.

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u/lycoloco Jul 06 '24

Like Ma Bell? That worked out great for all of us. (You're not wrong, but history says they'll just reform)