Ticketfly Hacker Stole More Than 26 Million Email and Home Addresses

i literally use this website maybe once a year and of course i just used it to buy it tickets 2 days ago

 

Similar, maybe closer to 2-3 times a year for me but still, it's an even split between that, eventbrite and ticketmaster.

 

So did they get passwords?

Any refs for action to take. I use ticketfly at least once a month few venues here in BK use it.

 

Lucky for me I’ve probably moved 6 times since last using the site.

 

weird, ticketfly is about the only ticketing company i buy tickets from, and i go to close to 100 shows a year, so...i'm surprised people use it so little

 

Maybe that explains the fake call I got from the "IRS" today?

 

I've been getting a lot of spam emails lately, wonder if this is why

 

Had never used I Have Been Pwned before - turns out my email address has come out as part of 5 data breaches over the years. Ugh.

 

Exactly why I’ve stopped caring about privacy, hahaha

 

never heard of this company / site before. sucks this happened.

 

Ticketfly and Kickstarter have had my data compromised according to that site. 5 is horrible luck though

 

Beyond Ticketfly, the other notable ones for me were Kickstarter, Myspace (released the data 8 years after the breach) and Disqus (didn't know I'd commented on sites that use that).

 

actually curious: is ticketfly mostly an east coast thing right now? almost every venue i go to uses that over ticketmaster/AXS

 

Here in Ohio I mostly use ticketmaster and ticketweb. I can only think of one venue in the Cleveland area that I buy from ticketfly (Beachland).

 

Ticketfly was used by two prominent "indie" venues in Denver but those venues were just taken over by Live Nation in recent months so they'll soon be Ticketmaster

 

Ticketfly is definitely the most prominent ticket website for the indie promoters and (general admission) venues here in Toronto, with two record stores also offering the same tickets. The rest of course sold by TM.

 

I think so. I’m in San Diego and only a single venue uses ticketfly here

 

Arizona here, ticketfly is the vendor for probably 85% of the shows I go to

 

According to “Have I Been Pwnd” I was affected by this breach and this breach alone. Any recommendations for follow up action beyond changing my email password?

 

Enabling two-factor authentication, if that’s an option, is always a good move

 

ticketfly is pretty common here in MN