Cybersecurity incident
Date: 2018-06-27 00:00:00
Affected organization: Ticketmaster
Affected country: United States of America
Industry: Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation
Event type: Exploitive
Event subtype: Exploitation of Application Server
Motive: Financial
Actor: Undetermined
Actor type: Criminal
Actor country: Undetermined
Description: Ticketing service Ticketmaster announces a data breach affecting roughly 5% of its entire customer base, resulting in the theft of customer data, Ticketmaster login information, and payment details. The breach didn't occur at Ticketmaster itself, but at Inbenta, a provider of AI-powered live chat widgets, which Ticketmaster was deploying on some of its localized sites across the world.