1y ago

Ticketmaster Hacker Demands $500K Ransom (Plus $300K Ransom Processing Fee, $220K Ransom Handling Fee)

theshovel.com.au Ticketmaster Hacker Demands $500K Ransom (Plus $300K Ransom Processing Fee, $220K Ransom Handling Fee) — The Shovel

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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“The cost for the ransom is $500,000. Your total ransom amount will be calculated on the next page. Would you like to upgrade to a special souvenir, limited-edition ransom for an extra $40 million?” the note read.
The group also offered Ticketmaster the opportunity to upgrade their ransom to ‘Refundable’ for just an extra $12 million, which would allow the company to request a refund and then have it later denied.
Bwahahahaha. Get fucked Ticketmaster.
- log in to get in the queue...
  Your place is 12,432

If this story was real, I’d root for the hacker
- I think they were actually hacked weren't they?
  
  I don’t know. This particular story is made up, though.

SORRY!! SOLD OUT!!
Tomorrow the resale price is $1.4 Million....

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.
- I 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.
  
  it's not the company that suffers though, everyone already has their personal data ...
  
  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?
  
  Fuck hospitals and end users then? The party losing the most here is certainly not ticketmaster
- Yeah the hackers can get fucked. But Ticketmaster can go get fucked more.

Hahahah
the onion
😢

ransom handling fee hahah how nice would it be were it true

Damn. I was really hoping this was real.

There's maybe three companies that I have no sympathy for in a case like this. Ticketmaster is one of them.
Edit: OMG I sincerely ate the onion.
- There was a real hack. The onion is just making a joke about it.
- Have sympathy for the people who had their data stolen

As much as I dislike Ticketmaster and their practices, these data breaches affect real people for the rest of their lives.
Not a good situation and Ticketmaster needs to be held 100% accountable.
- Best you can realistically hope for is a check for $7.31 and free credit reports for a year till it happens again.
  
  Or the ranmsomers get enough money to make it no longer a viable business model...
  Want to screw customers with hidden fees? Hackers will screw Ticketmaster with hidden ransoms
- c\whooosh
  
  Fully aware of the sub I’m in, this did still happen though and I was referring to the comments
  Woooosh yourself lol

Thanks for my daily giggle, op! Apples cost more than a laugh, both are good medicine.

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