Ticketfly Hit by Hackers, 27 Million Accounts at Risk

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Ticketfly Hit by Hackers, 27 Million Accounts at Risk

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Ticket sales site Ticketfly was hit by a major hack, compromising 27 million accounts. It is the most current in a long line of major corporate hacks that have exposed, in sum, hundreds of millions of customer records.

The company announced:

  • Ticketfly was the target of a malicious cyber attack last week
  • In consultation with third-party forensic cybersecurity experts we can now confirm that credit and debit card information was not accessed.
  • However, information including names, addresses, email addresses and phone numbers connected to approximately 27 million Ticketfly accounts was accessed. It’s important to note that many people purchase tickets with multiple email accounts, so the number of individuals impacted is likely lower.
  • We take privacy and security very seriously and upon first learning about this incident we took swift action to secure the data of our clients and fans.
  • Ticketfly.com, Ticketfly Backstage, and the vast majority of venue/promoter websites are back online.

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What did not happen? Credit card and password info was not taken. Ticketfly will change people’s passwords. If they do not do so, Ticketfly will do it for them.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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