{"id":147382,"date":"2018-06-27T18:11:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T18:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/ticketmaster-admits-personal-data-stolen-in-hack-attack\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T18:11:38","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T18:11:38","slug":"ticketmaster-admits-personal-data-stolen-in-hack-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/ticketmaster-admits-personal-data-stolen-in-hack-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticketmaster admits personal data stolen in hack attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Screengrab of Ticketmaster website\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/3479\/production\/_102233431_58a1e24a-eabd-41ca-9faf-3b99bf124c51.gif\"\/>Image copyright                  Ticketmaster<figcaption>Image caption                                      Ticketmaster sold 292 million tickets in 2017                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Ticketmaster has admitted that it has suffered a security breach, which the BBC understands has affected up to 40,000 UK customers.<\/p>\n<p>Malicious software on third-party customer support product Inbenta Technologies caused the hack, the firm said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Some personal or payment information may have been accessed by an unknown third party&quot;, it added.<\/p>\n<p>All affected customers have been contacted.<\/p>\n<p>In the email to those customers, Ticketmaster said it had set up a website to answer any questions and advised them to reset their passwords. It also offered them a free 12-month identity monitoring service.<\/p>\n<p>It said the breach was likely to have only affected UK customers who purchased or attempted to purchase tickets between February and 23 June 2018.<\/p>\n<p>But, as a precaution, it said it had also informed international customers who had purchased or attempted to purchase tickets between September 2017 and 23 June 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The company added that North American customers were not affected.<\/p>\n<p>Information that may have been compromised includes names, addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, payment details and Ticketmaster log-in details.<\/p>\n<p>It said that &quot;forensic teams and security experts are working around the clock&quot; to understand how data was compromised.<\/p>\n<p>Ticketmaster is confident it has complied with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules - acting very quickly and informing all relevant authorities, including the Information Commissioner&#039;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Ticketmaster&#039;s parent, Live Nation, declared it had 86 million customers in its most recent annual report.<\/p>\n<p>However, a spokeswoman was unable to break out a figure for Ticketmaster&#039;s total number of UK clients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright TicketmasterImage caption Ticketmaster sold 292 million tickets in 2017 Ticketmaster has admitted that it has suffered a security breach, which the BBC understands has affected up to 40,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}