Ticketmaster will pay $10 million criminal fine for hacking rival ticket seller

guest · Dec 30, 2020

Ticketmaster will pay $10 million for hacking rival ticket seller
It used stolen login credentials at a company summit
December 30, 2020
https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/30...-crowdsurge-hacking-deferred-prosecution-fine

Ticketmaster has agreed to pay $10 million for breaking into a competitors’ network. The company and its parent Live Nation admitted to hiring a former employee from rival ticket seller CrowdSurge, then using his knowledge — including old usernames and passwords — to learn CrowdSurge’s inner workings and “cut [the company] off at the knees.”

“Ticketmaster employees repeatedly — and illegally — accessed a competitor’s computers without authorization using stolen passwords to unlawfully collect business intelligence,” said acting US attorney Seth DuCharme.
“Further, Ticketmaster’s employees brazenly held a division-wide ‘summit’ at which the stolen passwords were used to access the victim company’s computers.”
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The hacking allegations were reported in 2017 after CrowdSurge (which had merged with another company called Songkick) sued Live Nation for antitrust violations.

Today’s judgment defers prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Ticketmaster must pay the fine in question, maintain clear policies to detect and prevent unauthorized computer intrusion, and present annual reports on its conduct for the next three years.
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DoJ: Ticketmaster Pays $10 Million Criminal Fine for Intrusions into Competitor’s Computer Systems

Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, Ticketmaster L.L.C. (Ticketmaster or the Company) agreed to pay a $10 million fine to resolve charges that it repeatedly accessed without authorization the computer systems of a competitor.

Previously, on October 18, 2019, Zeeshan Zaidi, the former head of Ticketmaster’s Artist Services division, pled guilty in a related case to conspiring to commit computer intrusions and wire fraud based on his participation in the same scheme. Both cases are assigned to U.S. District Judge Margo K. Brodie.
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imdb · Dec 30, 2020

unbelievable.
thanks, @mood .

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