Cybercriminal gang is putting personal and financial data of 500 million Ticketmaster users up for sale

Ticket service Ticketmaster suffered a massive cyberattack that resulted in the personal data of more than 500 million registered users being stolen on its platform. Stolen information includes name, address, phone number, email address and financial information such as the last four digits of your credit card.

The ShinyHunters cybercriminal group claimed responsibility for the attack and posted the stolen information on an Internet forum. dark web. The hackers claim that the database stores 1.3 terabytes of these records, and are asking for half a million dollars for it. elDiario.es contacted Ticketmaster, which did not respond to queries. The company has not yet officially taken a position on the breakup.

Australia’s Department of Home Affairs said it was “working with Ticketmaster to look into the incident.” The FBI offered its cooperation to the Australian government.

ShinyHunters has been linked to serious cyber attacks in the past. The most scandalous of them dates back to 2021, when the group published a genuine database with stolen information from 70 million customers of the American television operator AT&T.

However, in other cases, such massive database sales turned out to be false. Cybercriminals are piecing together various old information leaks and presenting them as if they were the result of a new successful cyberattack.

The disclosure of the alleged Ticketmaster hack comes during one of the most turbulent times for the company, which the US accuses of being a monopoly. Washington accuses him of exerting undue control over the ticketing market after merging with Live Nation in 2010, and of using his dominant position to exclude competitors who had exclusive contracts with venues from the market, forcing them to use his services exclusively for charging.