Ticketmaster Hacker Demands $500K Ransom (Plus $300K Ransom Processing Fee, $220K Ransom Handling Fee)
Ticketmaster Hacker Demands $500K Ransom (Plus $300K Ransom Processing Fee, $220K Ransom Handling Fee)
In a note posted online (which Ticketmaster was told they could print at home for a small $600,000 fee) the group ShinyHunters said they would release the 1.3 terabytes customer data as soon as the ransom was paid.
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I'm 100% not okay with stealing and ransoming people's personal information, but this makes me want to be 99% not okay with it.
40 0 ReplyI am 100% ok with ransoming companies with poor security.
We balance each other out. I’ll never feel sorry for a corporation and ticket master are one of the worst.
17 1 Replyit's not the company that suffers though, everyone already has their personal data ...
7 0 ReplyThat’s inevitable at this point anyway. If you’re that concerned then change what you can every time there is a breach.
2 1 Replyyour comment implies we already aren't doing that.
do not project your apathy toward your own privacy onto the rest of us.
6 1 ReplyI change all the time.
I am apathetic towards a lot of things, but my privacy isn’t one.
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You know this affected a bunch of individual humans, many of whom skipped meals and other things, to buy an overpriced ticket for a moment of brightness in a life of drudgery?
4 0 ReplyFuck hospitals and end users then? The party losing the most here is certainly not ticketmaster
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Yeah the hackers can get fucked. But Ticketmaster can go get fucked more.
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