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Ex-Ticketmaster boss who illegally accessed rival’s IT system sentenced to a year’s supervised release

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The ex-Ticketmaster boss who hacked into his previous employees’ systems and brought about their collapse has been sentenced.

Stephen Mead had worked for CrowdSurge as their Senior Vice President for Global Operations and General Manager in North America. He then joined Ticketmaster. Whilst there Mead allegedly accessed CrowdSurge’s system with IP addresses registered to Ticketmaster at least 25 times between August 2013 and December 2015.

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