Ticketmaster Hack Allegedly Exposes 560 Million Customers' Data

Hackers claim to have stolen data on over 560 million Ticketmaster customers globally. Australian officials are investigating the alleged breach as the ticketing giant faces a $500,000 ransom demand.

Reports are coming out that hackers got into Ticketmaster's systems and took the personal details of something like 560 million customers all over.  This ShinyHunters group says they got names, addresses, phone numbers, and some payment info and are demanding half a million bucks to not sell it off.  

The Aussie government knows about it and is working with Ticketmaster to figure out what happened.  The FBI offered to help them.  Ticketmaster hasn't said anything officially yet about a breach.  If this is all true it could be the biggest data theft ever and 

this comes right after US regulators went after Ticketmaster's parent company Live Nation saying they were too dominant in the market and jacked up prices. 

ShinyHunters has been tied to some other big data thefts that cost companies millions.  Last year they allegedly got data on 200,000 Pizza Hut customers down in Australia.  

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The timing lines up with some dark web site called BreachForums relaunching for selling hacked data and tools for cyberattacks.  But claims on those kinds of sites sometimes stretch the truth about how big a hack was.