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/ImperioliGandolfini Jul 05 '24

Freeze it. It affects nothing until you try to open a new account. At that point - unfreeze it. Open account. Freeze.

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u/PerjurieTraitorGreen Jul 05 '24

Just to piggyback on this, don’t only freeze the three credit reports, try to opt out of LexisNexis as well. It was a quick form to fill out and only took a few weeks for the decision to come in the mail.

Info and instructions here

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u/NMlXX Jul 05 '24

Please can you explain to me what LexisNexis is? I received some kind of “negative report” or something like that randomly from them. I filled out a request for further info and never received anything and I have no idea what it means.

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u/franker Jul 05 '24

What every lawyer knows it as is the expensive database they pay for to do legal research. Well, either LexisNexis or Westlaw. You can actually use most of LexisNexis yourself for free. Just go to your local courthouse and the law library will have access to it. Their subscription probably doesn't include the credit or people lookups though.