ShinyHunters posted on Tuesday night in a hacking forum that it obtained data from Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, including customers’ names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and order details, Cyber Daily wrote. The group is reportedly attempting to sell the stolen data for $500 million.
From this other link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-29/ticketmaster-hack-allegedlyshinyhunter-customers-data-leaked/103908614
It said 1.3 terabytes of customer data possessed by Ticketmaster including names, addresses, credit card numbers, phone numbers and payment details is up for sale.
I’ll look forward to my $0.50 check and exactly zero consequences for the higher-ups that I’m sure slashed IT/cybersecurity budgets.
“Did you cut security staff?”
“Yes.”
“How much?”
“70%”
“And did that lack of security cause a security breach?”
“Yes.”
“And how much money did that cost us?”
“2 million dollars.”
“And how much did the security team that was let go cost us?”
“$500,000 per year.”
“So, we break even after 4 years, and profit after 5?”
“Uhhhhhhh…I guess?”
“Good work Johnson”.
heh, you don’t know how true this is. I’ve worked in IT for 2 decades. IT is pretty much always seen as a cost center.
If everything is running smoothly - “what are we paying you for?!”
If everything is on fire - " What are we paying you for!?"
And now with companies getting the tiniest of slaps on the wrists for willful negligence it’s cheaper to cut IT funding, outsource it, whatever.
If the cost of the fine is less than the profits gained by doing “x” then that’s just the cost of doing business. Execs will continue to do this until there are real consequences for the company and them directly.
All those convenience fees hard at work I see.
So convenient to automatically give everyone access to your credit card number without any action or knowledge on your end. It happens all on its own.
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Does anyone have reccomendations for a good (open source) Android keyboard mine doesn’t have a search function for emoji
I was about to recommend Heliboard since that’s the best one so far IMO, but it also doesn’t have emoji search. Turns out I was using the “recent emojis” menu
That might help in the meantime till a better recommendation comes around
That’s actually what I’m using
I was going to reccomend the samsung keyboard specifically BECAUSE it doesn’t have that swiping, or emojis. Yep. Just a good ol standard reliable keyboard. Which means any typos in this message are my own stupid fingers fault.
…but you WANT emojis in your keyboard. Must be a generational thing.
/hankhill
Why wouldnt you want emoji?
Meanwhile, earlier this month, I had to literally disable quite a few bits of adblocks and other extensions just so that Ticketmaster’s crappy CAPTCHA thing would allow me to even log in. Literally screamed “Why are you pestering me, I’m just trying to buy a ticket to a local car show, not a fucking Madonna concert”
And you had to pay a “convenience” fee for the privilege too.
Oh last year I paid the ticket in cash, 20€, no problem. This year? 20€, plus 1+bits euros of processing fees. To “deliver” my ticket to the platform of my choice. (…Mobile app.)
So I went to the car show. They still had the cash booth. Mild failure to communicate. I just dodged the field of view of the booth guys, out of shame, and entered like normal, glad the ticket guards were accommodating.
Oh I forgot the best part! When I was trying to log on and the security interfered with CAPTCHAs, Ticketmaster reset my password several times. That’s how you know this company take security seriously. /s (Literally no site does this.)
Guess I have a new wave of spam calls to look forward to.
If that data is really worth $500 million, Ticketmaster probably “hacked” itself. One last score before the DOJ breaks them up.
Save this Card# for later?
Fuck no!
Unfortunately it was just another Wednesday for the higher ups there. Sigh.
Glad I’ve never used the scummy fuckers.
I mean…they are scummy fuckers, but…do you just NOT go to concerts?
Not by venues the size that are whored out to TM, is an option. Just because something is slammed at you 1m times by radio, advertisers, YouTube, etc., you can still choose the music you listen to and like.
I’ve been to concert venues that hold 30 max occupants still had to go through ticketmaster for $5 tickets, with $13.79 in fees.
They are EVERYWHERE.
Plenty of other things to do in a city that size, then.
Didn’t mean to say venues have many options, TM needs to be broken up. Even non-profits and the like have had to sign the Ursula contract with TM as they dominate the industry so
In this economy?
Not LN/Ticketmaster shows.
My brokeass can’t do shit so I will just give you an upvote. Bank refused to give me loan because of my credit rating. The funny part is I never had a credit card or any other loan. Later I found out my that Tangerine Telecom fucked me by giving my data to hackers and someone used my info to get a credit card.
I’m not one of those 560 million.
