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Hacker suspected in massive Ticketmaster, AT&T breaches arrested in Canada


The breaches affected millions of people.

In May, Ticketmaster parent company Live Nation revealed that it had suffered a massive data breach after alleged customer information was posted for sale on hacking forums. However, that was only the first of many breaches to come to light, with other companies with ties to Snowflake, including AT&T, Santander Bank, Advanced Auto Parts, and Lending Tree subsidiary Quote Wizard later disclosing security incidents affecting millions of customers. Following an investigation, the Google-owned cybersecurity firm Mandiant found that a “financially motivated threat actor” had stolen a “significant volume of data” from about 165 Snowflake customers using compromised login credentials.

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