Hackread Claims ShinyHunters Selling Ticketmaster User Data
TapTechNews May 31st news, the security company Hackread recently released a report claiming that they observed the hacker group ShinyHunters selling '1.3 terabytes of data from the ticketing platform Ticketmaster' on the dark web. The relevant data is said to 'involve 560 million users', and the hackers 'clearly priced' the data as 'digital currency worth $500,000 (TapTechNews note: currently about 3.625 million yuan).'
It is known that Ticketmaster is the largest ticketing sales platform in the United States, with business operations in many countries and regions around the world. It has had many controversies, including opaque ticket prices; was accused of illegally accessing the system of a competitor in 2020; had a system outage on the first day of selling Taylor Swift's concert tickets in November 2022; and was also sued by the US Department of Justice last week for violating the 'Antitrust Law'. The US Department of Justice has officially filed an antitrust lawsuit against it last week, explicitly demanding that this ticketing giant that controls 70% of the US concert ticket market be split into two.
The security company Hackread said that according to their observations, the hacker group ShinyHunters claims to have successfully obtained the user database rights of Ticketmaster and downloaded a large amount of private information, including user names, addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, ticket details, event details, order information, and some users' credit card (including name, the last four digits of the card and the credit card expiration time) information.
However, Ticketmaster has not made an official response for the time being, and TapTechNews will continue to follow up and report.
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