Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-05-30 00:00:00
Affected organization: Ticketfly
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation
Event type: Mixed
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server,Message Manipulation
Motive: Financial
Actor: IsHaKdZ
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: The Ticketfly website is defaced with an image of V from the film V for Vendetta. Unfortunately, after refusing to pay a 1 BTC ransom, Ticketfly reveals that the personal information of 27 million accounts, including ticket buyers and venue operators, was compromised.