Ticketmaster: Data of half a billion customers hacked, report

1.3 TB data trove on sale for $500,000

John Leonard
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Ticketmaster: Data of half a billion customers hacked. Source: Koshiro K, Shutterstock
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Ticketmaster: Data of half a billion customers hacked. Source: Koshiro K, Shutterstock

The personal data of 560 million Ticketmaster customers has allegedly been exposed in a massive data breach.

Hacker group ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the attack and is selling the data on a hacking forum.  The apparent hack was first reported by CyberDaily, who also published a screenshot o...

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