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Hackers Arrested After Fencing $600K Of Stolen Taylor Swift Eras Tour Tickets
While she grossed more than $2 billion on her historic Eras Tour, some Taylor Swift fans were taken for a ride to the tune of $600,000.
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that two hackers were arrested and arraigned on Thursday after allegedly stealing upwards of 900 digital concert tickets, mostly for the Eras Tour, and selling them for a profit of more than $600,000 over a year. “According to the charges, these defendants tried to use the popularity of Taylor Swift’s concert tour and other high-profile events to profit at the expensive of others,” said Katz in a statement. According to DA Katz’s office, two individuals working for a StubHub third-party contractor in Kingston, Jamaica, stealing ticket URLs and emailing them to two co-conspirators in Jamaica, Queens, who allegedly downloaded the tickets and resold them on StubHub for personal profit.
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