NEW YORK—Credit unions have yet another reason to remind members to be on the lookout for unauthorized activities on their cards and accounts, with a massive quantity of data allegedly stolen from Ticketmaster now being offered for sale, according to numerous reports.
The data is available on the recently rebooted BreachForums data leak marketplace.
According to Bank Info Security, the listing, posted by administrator ShinyHunters, putatively offers for "one time sale" 1.3 terabytes of data comprising 560-million customers' full names, email addresses, telephone numbers, hashed payment card numbers, card expiration dates and a complete history of financial transactions on the site.
“Researchers who reviewed samples of the data being offered for sale say it appears to be legitimate and includes transactions dating from at least March 10 of this year, stretching back to 2011 or possibly even the mid-2000s,” Bank Info Security said.
Threat Group Unidentified
"Sometime in April an unidentified threat group was able to get access to Ticketmaster AWS instances by pivoting from a managed service provider," the malware research group vx-underground, which said it was able to review an "absurdly large" sample of the stolen data shared by the attacker, said in a post on the social media platform X, Bank Info Security added.
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