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Ticketmaster Acknowledges Data Breach After Hacker Claimed Stealing Info From 560 Million Customers

Ticketmaster has acknowledged in a new SEC filing that it suffered a data breach, days after a hacker group listed company data for sale for $500,000.

The filing comes days after a hacker under the name ShinyHuntersin a popular online hacker group called Breachforums, claiming that they had pilfered massive amounts of Ticketmaster data including names, addresses, and phone numbers of 560 million customers, as well as some credit card data. Live Nation said in the filing that the company first identified unauthorized activity on the database on May 20 and launched an investigation, further stating that it notified and is cooperating with law enforcement. The breach comes as the Department of Justice hit Ticketmaster and Live Nation with a lengthy antitrust lawsuit last week, accusing the company of operating a monopoly over the concert and ticketing industries.

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