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The hacker group ShinyHunters has put the customer database of the American ticketing service Ticketmaster up for sale. Its volume is 560 million records, including names, addresses and partial payment details. Ticketmaster itself has not yet confirmed the fact that its systems were hacked.
Usually, information about data leaks comes only after the affected company itself reports it. In this case, the incident was first reported by the cybersecurity resource Hackread, whose authors found the Ticketmaster database on the newly opened hacker platform BreachForums. The Australian Ministry of Home Affairs also reported that it was “working with Ticketmaster to understand the incident,” and this indirectly confirms the fact of the hack, despite the silence of the company itself. The database, according to ShinyHunters, is 1.3 TB in size, and it contains the personal data of 560 million of the operator’s clients. The hackers are selling it for $500,000.
ShinyHunters claim they tried to sell the stolen Ticketmaster data before putting it up for sale on BreachForums. The platform's administrators apparently did not respond to the extortion attempt, and it is difficult to say whether the group is looking for a new buyer or putting pressure on the victim. It is possible that ShinyHunters are trying to earn reputation points: two weeks ago, the FBI shut down a platform partially controlled by the group, BreachForums, which has now resurfaced with a client base of a major operator.
This hypothesis is also supported by the fact that the hackers chose the odious Ticketmaster service as their victim: fans of singer Taylor Swift and many other concert lovers in the US have developed a clearly negative attitude towards it, and the Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation Entertainment, the owner of Ticketmaster. Users of the platform are advised to change their account passwords and check whether they have saved bank card data - if so, it is better to replace these cards.
Source: HowToGeek
Usually, information about data leaks comes only after the affected company itself reports it. In this case, the incident was first reported by the cybersecurity resource Hackread, whose authors found the Ticketmaster database on the newly opened hacker platform BreachForums. The Australian Ministry of Home Affairs also reported that it was “working with Ticketmaster to understand the incident,” and this indirectly confirms the fact of the hack, despite the silence of the company itself. The database, according to ShinyHunters, is 1.3 TB in size, and it contains the personal data of 560 million of the operator’s clients. The hackers are selling it for $500,000.
ShinyHunters claim they tried to sell the stolen Ticketmaster data before putting it up for sale on BreachForums. The platform's administrators apparently did not respond to the extortion attempt, and it is difficult to say whether the group is looking for a new buyer or putting pressure on the victim. It is possible that ShinyHunters are trying to earn reputation points: two weeks ago, the FBI shut down a platform partially controlled by the group, BreachForums, which has now resurfaced with a client base of a major operator.
This hypothesis is also supported by the fact that the hackers chose the odious Ticketmaster service as their victim: fans of singer Taylor Swift and many other concert lovers in the US have developed a clearly negative attitude towards it, and the Justice Department has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation Entertainment, the owner of Ticketmaster. Users of the platform are advised to change their account passwords and check whether they have saved bank card data - if so, it is better to replace these cards.
Source: HowToGeek
