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Ticketmaster Hack: Data of Half a Billion Users Up for Ransom (www.ticketnews.com)
submitted 3 months ago by ReedReads to c/databreaches
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Good thing these dickheads have been building a solid stockpile of ransom payment for years through fee collection, so they can breathe easily knowing capital is of no concern

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Assuming user's data is worth at least a dollar each...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

The article says it's data for 560 mil users being sold at $500k USD, that puts the black-market valuation at roughly $0.0009 USD per user. Seems a little on the low end to me if they really do have credit card and payment details linked to other personal information for so many people.