Ticketmaster ‘s parent company Live Nation acknowledged that it suffered a data breach tied to the ticketing company’s user data, confirming the matter in an SEC filing Friday. The filing comes days after a hacker under the name ShinyHunters in a popular online hacker group called Breachforums, claiming that they had pilfered massive amounts of Ticketmaster data including names, addresses, and phone numbers of 560 million customers, as well as some credit card data. ShinyHunters was asking for $500,000 for it.
Live Nation said in the filing that the company first identified unauthorized activity on the database on May 20 and launched an investigation, further stating that it notified and is cooperating with law enforcement. Despite the hacker claims, Ticketmaster said in the filing that the breach “has not had, and we do not believe it is reasonably likely to have, a material impact on our overall business operations or on our financial condition or results of operations.” Per the filing, the breach occurred on “a third-party cloud database environment containing Company data” rather than on Ticketmaster’s servers.
Ticketmaster confirmed to Rolling Stone it was a database the company hosted through the cloud data company Snowflake. The SEC filing provided no details on what caused the breach. Trending Eminem Attempts to Make His Career Disappear With New Song 'Houdini' Bad Boy for Life: Sean Combs’ History of Violence Trump Hoped 'My Juror' Would Save Him From.
