So do you use ticket broker Ticketfly often? I ask because you better check your information to see if it’s safe. Ticketfly hacker steals information, and lots of it.
So a few days ago, a hacker compromised Ticketfly. He/she caused a data breached that leaked out over 26 million customers’ info. This information includes emails and peoples’ addresses. Let me be clear. The hacker did not leak credit/debit cards, social security numbers, passwords, or anything of that nature. We can thank Troy Hunt for this knowledge. Hunt is the founder of Have I been Pwned, an online security firm. Because on this site, you can check to see if anybody breached your information. Clearly, someone did.
However, the threat is not yet over. Because the hacker still threatens to post more info. If this sounds like a ransom attack, then you’re right. The hacker demands one bitcoin. As of this writing, one bitcoin is worth about $7,400. If the hacker gets the money, then he/she will fix the problem and reveal the flaw. But Ticketfly refused. Therefore, Ticketfly closed the website. They did it because the hacker threaten to reveal more information if he/she doesn’t get that bitcoin. So Tickefly isn’t taking any chances.
Let’s look at the good news. In so many of these incidents, the hackers did compromise credit and debit cards. It messed up a lot of people. But that isn’t happening here. And they made sure it’s not happening by shutting down the website altogether. This is good, wise IT support move. We should also thank Pwned for catching this before it went too far. Now some, even visitors at our Boston computer service shop,? say they should give in and gave the hacker the bitcoin. But if you give these hackers an inch, they’ll probably take the whole road, forget the mile. How far do you think they’ll go if unchecked?