A hacker is promoting buyer knowledge allegedly stolen from the Australia-based reside occasions and ticketing firm TEG on a widely known hacking discussion board.
On Thursday, a hacker put up on the market the alleged stolen knowledge from TEG, claiming to have info of 30 million customers, together with the complete title, gender, date of start, username, hashed passwords and e mail addresses.
In late Could, TEG-owned ticketing firm Ticketek disclosed a knowledge breach affecting Australian prospects’ knowledge, “which is saved in a cloud-based platform, hosted by a good, international third social gathering provider.”
The corporate mentioned that “no Ticketek buyer account has been compromised,” because of the encryption strategies used to retailer their passwords. TEG conceded, nevertheless, that “buyer names, dates of start and e mail addresses might have been impacted” — knowledge that will line up with that marketed on the hacking discussion board.
The hacker included a pattern of the alleged stolen knowledge of their publish. TechCrunch confirmed that at the very least a few of the knowledge revealed on the discussion board seems professional by making an attempt to join new accounts utilizing the revealed e mail addresses. In quite a lot of circumstances, Ticketek’s web site gave an error, suggesting the e-mail addresses are already in use.
When reached by e mail, a spokesperson for TEG didn’t remark by press time.
On its official website, Ticketek says the corporate “sells over 23 million tickets to greater than 20,000 occasions annually.”
Whereas Ticketek didn’t title the “cloud-based platform, hosted by a good, international third social gathering provider,” there may be proof that means it could possibly be Snowflake, which has been on the middle of a latest sequence of knowledge thefts affecting a number of of its prospects, together with Ticketmaster, Santander Financial institution and others.
A now-deleted publish on Snowflake’s web site from January 2023 was titled: “TEG Personalises Reside Leisure Experiences with Snowflake.” In 2022, consulting firm Altis revealed a case research detailing how the corporate, working with TEG, “constructed a contemporary knowledge platform for ingesting streaming knowledge into Snowflake.”
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When reached for touch upon the Ticketek breach, Snowflake spokesperson Danica Stanczak didn’t reply our particular questions, and as an alternative referred to the corporate’s public assertion. In it, Snowflake chief info safety officer Brad Jones mentioned that the corporate has not “recognized proof suggesting this exercise was attributable to a vulnerability, misconfiguration, or breach of Snowflake’s platform.”
Snowflake’s spokesperson declined to verify or deny whether or not TEG or Ticketek is a Snowflake buyer.
Snowflake gives firms all around the world with providers that assist its prospects retailer knowledge within the cloud. Cybersecurity agency Mandiant, owned by Google, mentioned earlier this month that cybercriminals have stolen a “vital quantity of knowledge” from a number of Snowflake prospects. Mandiant is working with Snowflake to analyze the information breach, and disclosed in a weblog publish that the 2 firms have notified round 165 Snowflake prospects.
Snowflake has blamed the hacking marketing campaign on its prospects for not utilizing multi-factor authentication, which allowed hackers to make use of passwords “beforehand bought or obtained via infostealing malware.”
