A menace actor continued their extortion marketing campaign towards Ticketmaster on Monday by claiming to leak over 30,000 print-at-home tickets stolen from the seller.
“Sp1d3rHunters” marketed the information dump on an underground discussion board yesterday, alongside a four-step information for customers to make their very own printable barcode tickets. They claimed to have tickets for gigs by Stevie Nicks, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Crimson Sizzling Chili Peppers, and plenty of extra artists.
The menace actor warned Ticketmaster: “You now should reset 30K extra tickets. Pay us $2m or we’ll leak the mail and e-ticket barcodes for all of your occasions.”
The leak got here simply days after the identical actor leaked 170,000 tickets to Taylor Swift’s much-hyped Eras Tour.
The ticketing large had responded to that effort by claiming its personal SafeTix expertise mechanically refreshes the barcodes on these digital tickets, rendering efforts to clone and promote them ineffective.
Sp1d3rHunters hit again with its newest posting.
“Ticketmaster lies to the general public and says barcodes can’t be used. Tickets database consists of each on-line and bodily ticket varieties,” it claimed. “Bodily ticket varieties are Ticketfast, e-ticket, and mail. These are printed and can’t be mechanically refreshed.”
The breach itself seems to be traced again to a compromise of Ticketmaster’s Snowflake account, which led to the publicity of knowledge on an estimated 560 million clients.
Based on Mandiant, which is investigating the assault, round 165 Snowflake shoppers had accounts hijacked throughout that marketing campaign, with menace group ShinyHunters acquiring logins from info-stealer malware and logs.
The incidents led to renewed requires organizations to comply with greatest follow login safety, and guarantee they’ve multi-factor authentication (MFA) switched on for any delicate on-line accounts.
The menace actors have apparently additionally tried to extort different company victims of the identical marketing campaign, together with Neiman Marcus, Santander and the Los Angeles Unified College District.
Learn extra on Snowfkake breach: Menace Actor Breaches Snowflake Prospects, Victims Extorted.
