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Ticketmaster Hack: Data of Half a Billion Users Up for Ransom

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Australia’s Department of Home Affairs told ABC it is “working with Ticketmaster to understand the incident,” according to that news outlet. “This could mean the potential risk of identity fraud and we would assume this data would be used for phishing or impersonation attacks down the track,” says cybersecurity expert Mark Lukie in the ABC report. Live Nation and Ticketmaster have already been having a rocky week, facing a massive antitrust lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice and 30 state and district attorneys general Thursday in New York.

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