"Ticketmaster Extortion Continues, Threat Actor Claims New Ticket Leak"
A threat actor, "Sp1d3rHunters," continued their extortion campaign against Ticketmaster on Monday by claiming to leak over 30,000 print-at-home tickets stolen from the vendor. The threat actor advertised the data dump on an underground forum alongside a four-step guide for users to make their own printable barcode tickets. They claimed to have tickets for gigs by Stevie Nicks, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and many more artists. The threat actor warned Ticketmaster that they now have to reset 30K more tickets. The threat actor told Ticketmaster to pay them $2m, or they would leak the mail and e-ticket barcodes for all of the company's events. The leak came just days after the same actor leaked 170,000 tickets to Taylor Swift's much-hyped Eras Tour. Ticketmaster had responded to that effort by claiming its own SafeTix technology automatically refreshes the barcodes on these digital tickets, rendering efforts to clone and sell them useless. The breach appears to be traced back to a compromise of Ticketmaster's Snowflake account, which led to data exposure on an estimated 560 million customers.