Live Nation, Ticketmaster’s parent company, revealed in a Friday SEC filing to investors that hackers breached systems containing sensitive user data earlier in the month, and that it found that data for sale online.
The report confirms a hacking group’s claim that it obtained the names, phone numbers, addresses, transaction information and partial credit card information of 560 million Ticketmaster customers dating back to at least 2011. The group asked for $500,000 in exchange for the data on a dark web forum that had previously been shut down by the FBI, per the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
