After Taylor Swift tickets fraud: 39,000 more tickets released
Ticketmaster extortionists have published 39,000 barcodes for concerts by popular bands. Anti-fraud measures may not be effective.
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After the criminals increased the pressure on Ticketmaster following a breach of their IT systems by "giving away" around 170,000 barcodes that could supposedly be used to create functioning tickets for Taylor Swift concerts, they have gone one better. They have now published around 39,000 "print-at-home" tickets for around 150 upcoming concerts and events, including Metallica, Pearl Jam, Phish, Tate McCrae and the Foo Fighters.
As Bleeping Computer reports, Ticketmaster has stated that the anti-fraud measures that permanently rotate the barcodes are effective: "Ticketmaster's SafeFix technology protects the tickets by automatically generating new and unique barcodes every few seconds so that they cannot be stolen or copied". The cyber criminals contradict this and explain that they have stolen numerous "print-at-home" tickets whose barcodes cannot be renewed.
Cyber criminals disagree: Tickets are valid
"The ticket database contains both online and physical tickets," the attackers post on Breachforums. "The physical ticket types are Ticketfast, e-ticket and mail. These are printed and cannot be renewed automatically".
The perpetrators attached a CSV file to the post, which is said to contain 38,745 tickets that were created for Ticketmaster's "print-at-home" version Ticketfast. Ticketmaster has not yet commented further on this.
It is therefore unclear whether some or all of the 170,000 barcodes for Taylor Swift concerts published to date are not valid. It can be assumed that the Ticketfast tickets are currently valid, but Ticketmaster could also adjust the CSV file and issue the actual ticket holders with a new ticket.
(dmk)