Ticketmaster is investigating a possible security incident after the hacker collective ShinyHunters claimed to have in its possession data of 560 million users of this ticket purchasing platform. This company is the one that has been in charge of selling tickets for Taylor Swift’s concert in Madrid.
ShinyHunters has put up for sale on a forum 1.3TB of data with information from 560 million Ticketmaster users, which includes everything from email addresses and phone numbers to sales details and part of the bank card data, according to reports specialized portals such as Hackread and CyberDaily.
This incident is currently being investigated by Ticketmaster and the Australian Department of Home Affairs, a spokesperson for the latter confirmed to the ABC. Cyber attacks on large companies are the order of the day. This same week, it emerged that Telefónica was trying to find out the extent of an attack that would have affected the data of up to 120,000 customers and employees. Just one day later, there was a data leak of 850,000 Iberdrola customers in Spain.
Ticketmaster’s press office in Europe did not immediately respond to this newspaper’s request for more information about the alleged attack.
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