Live Nation took 11 days to confirm the massive Ticketmaster data breach
by Richard Lawler from The Verge - All Posts on (#6N739)
Illustration: Beatrice Sala Someone going by the name ShinyHunters" has been advertising a 1.3TB cache of data allegedly containing personal data (names, email/home addresses, and phone numbers), credit card details, and other information about 560 million Ticketmaster customers for $500,000 in hacking forums all week.
Now, Ticketmaster parent Live Nation - the company that upset an army of Taylor Swift fans and is facing a federal antitrust lawsuit - publicly acknowledged a data breach in a regulatory filing late Friday evening.
On May 20, 2024, Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (the Company" or we") identified unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database environment containing Company data (primarily from its Ticketmaster L.L.C. subsidiary) and...