Ticketmaster Data Breach: Hackers Demand $8 Million After Exposing Taylor Swift Tour Data
The ShinyHunters hacking group has hit Ticketmaster with a massive data breach, demanding an $8 million ransom after initially asking for $1 million. The breach includes sensitive ticketing data from Taylor Swift's Eras Tour among other high-profile events.
Ticketmaster search interface with Taylor Swift
The hackers claim to have obtained:
- 193 million ticketing barcodes (including 440,000 Taylor Swift tickets worth $22 billion)
- 980 million sales orders
- 680 million order details
- 1.2 billion party lookup records
- 440 million unique email addresses
- 400 million encrypted credit card details (partial information)
- 560 million Address Verification System records
The breach specifically exposes data from Taylor Swift's Eras Tour dates at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis (November 1-3, 2024), including barcode values and seat details that could be used to create counterfeit tickets.
Security risks include:
- Potential for counterfeit ticket creation
- Increased risk of phishing attacks
- Compromise of personal identification information
- Vulnerability of user accounts through exposed host account creation dates and VAX numbers
The incident is being called the largest publicly disclosed non-scrape breach of customer Personally Identifiable Information to date, potentially surpassing the scale of the Equifax hack.
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