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Ticketmaster hackers are holding data of 440,000 Taylor Swift ticketholders for ransom
The hackers have upped their ransom demand to $8 million.
Cybersecurity publication Hackread reports that hacker group ShinyHunters updated their ransom demand on Thursday, asking Ticketmaster's parent company Live Nation Entertainment to shell out $8 million for the safe return of the information. Though ShinyHunters claimed it previously accepted a "rushed" offer of $1 million from Live Nation, the group has since assessed the hacked data and revised its demands. The hacker group claims that this makes it "the largest publicly disclosed non-scrape breach of customer [personally identifiable information] of all time."
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