Live Nation, Ticketmaster Confirms Hack Potentially Affecting More Than 500 Million Customers
“We are working to mitigate risk to our users and the company, and have notified and are cooperating with law enforcement,” read the filing, per the NY Times. “As appropriate, we are also notifying regulatory authorities and users with respect to unauthorized access to personal information.”
Live Nation also added in the filing that they did not believe the data hacking would have “a material impact on our overall business operations or on our financial condition or results of operations.”
Brett Callow, a threat analyst for cybersecurity firm, Emsisoft, told the New York Times that it’s advised to change your Ticketmaster passwords as a precaution, even though there is no evidence that passwords were compromised.
The breach comes on the heels of Ticketmaster scrutiny making headlines, as the Justice Department announced last month it was suing Live Nation for maintaining an alleged illegal monopoly in the live entertainment industry.