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Ticketmaster says customers' credit card information affected by data breach | Email warns customers of a 'data security incident' that may have leaked personal information
Ticketmaster is notifying customers about a “data security incident” that may have leaked their personal information.
That breach was described as "unauthorized activity" in a third-party cloud database that mainly contained Ticketmaster data, according to a filing that month by the company's owner Live Nation with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. That came after a hacking group called ShinyHunters claimed it had stolen user data of more than 500 million Ticketmaster customers and demanded a ransom of $500,000 US ($680,000 Cdn), according to media reports. Evan Light, associate professor of communications at York University and an expert in privacy and surveillance technology, says it's surprising that people's credit card numbers were released.
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