Someone going by nan sanction “ShinyHunters” has been advertizing a 1.3TB cache of information allegedly containing individual information (names, email/home addresses, and telephone numbers), in installments paper details, and different accusation astir 560 cardinal Ticketmaster customers for $500,000 successful hacking forums each week.
Now, Ticketmaster genitor Live Nation — nan institution that upset an service of Taylor Swift fans and is facing a national antitrust lawsuit — publically acknowledged a information breach in a regulatory filing precocious Friday evening.
On May 20, 2024, Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (the “Company” aliases “we”) identified unauthorized activity wrong a third-party unreality database situation containing Company information (primarily from its Ticketmaster L.L.C. subsidiary) and launched an investigation pinch industry-leading forensic investigators to understand what happened. On May 27, 2024, a criminal threat character offered what it alleged to beryllium Company personification information for waste via nan acheronian web. We are moving to mitigate consequence to our users and nan Company, and person notified and are cooperating pinch rule enforcement. As appropriate, we are besides notifying regulatory authorities and users pinch respect to unauthorized entree to individual information.
As of nan day of this filing, nan incident has not had, and we do not judge it is reasonably apt to have, a worldly effect connected our wide business operations aliases connected our financial information aliases results of operations. We proceed to measure nan risks and our remediation efforts are ongoing.
The only charismatic connection we’ve seen until now has been from nan Australian Department of Home Affairs, which confirmed it was moving pinch nan institution to understand a cybersecurity incident. As noted above, it says it became alert of unauthorized activity connected May 20th — it’s now May 31st. Live Nation has not responded to requests for remark from The Verge.
Live Nation didn’t supply circumstantial specifications astir nan breach, really galore group are affected, aliases what it’s doing, but a study by nan information patient Hudson Rock claims bad actors breached their Snowflake unreality retention account, arsenic good arsenic those of different companies.
However, Live Nation investors tin possibly consciousness comforted by executives saying they don’t judge this breach will person a worldly effect connected its wide business, which makes consciousness if you judge the Department of Justice’s monopoly allegations. With nan Live Nation-Ticketmaster conglomerate controlling much than 60 of nan apical 100 US amphitheaters, wherever other are group going to go?