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Ticketmaster will pay $10 million for hacking rival ticket seller

We’ve seen a lot of companies do shady things, but Ticketmaster was just caught red handed using a rival ticketing company’s private user information to “cut [the company] off at the knees.” The story goes all the way back to 2013 when Ticketmaster hired former CrowdSurge employee Stephen Mead and “encouraged him to turn over …

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Ticketmaster to pay $10 million criminal penalty after hacking rival ticket seller – Dancing Astronaut

by: Farrell Sweeney Jan 4, 2021 Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation have admitted to hiring a former employee from rival ticket seller CrowdSurge, which merged with Songkick, and using his knowledge including old usernames and passwords to “cut the company off at its knees.” Under the terms of the settlement, Ticketmaster has agreed to …

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