Darkish internet group Shiny Hunters claims to have hacked a whole lot of hundreds of thousands of buyer particulars from Ticketmaster and Reside Nation.
The group is attempting to promote the data for $US500,000 on the darkish internet, which they are saying consists of 1.3 terabytes of buyer knowledge.
It isn’t but identified if Australians are caught up within the knowledge breach however the group alleges it has the small print of 560 million individuals.
The group claimed to have stolen names, addresses, contact particulars, bank card data, ticket orders, bank card particulars and fraud data.
If the data is breached, it may trigger monumental issues for these individuals caught up within the hack, together with monetary fraud and id theft.
Ticketmaster is a subsidiary of Reside Nation, working in 32 international locations all over the world.
It has greater than 5 million clients in Australia and New Zealand alone.
Shiny Hunters is a bunch that has been liable for high-profile knowledge breaches and is the proprietor of Breach Boards, a platform for identified for cybercrime actions, in response to HackRead.com.
The FBI tried to shutdown the discussion board, however Shiny Hunters have been in a position to reclaim the area, evading legislation enforcement.
Not too long ago, the US Division of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit to interrupt up an alleged monopoly within the stay music trade between live performance promoter Reside Nation Leisure and Ticketmaster.
Information Corp reported the lawsuit claimed Reside Nation abused its dominant market place to boost ticket charges, squeeze out opponents and restrict decisions for followers, venues and artists.
US Lawyer-Basic Merrick Garland stated Reside Nation relied on illegal, anticompetitive conduct to train its monopolistic management over the stay occasions trade within the US at the price of followers, artists, smaller promoters and venue operators.
“It’s time to break up Reside Nation,” he stated.
NewsWire is in search of remark from Ticketmaster.
