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Anthony Spadafora

Over 500 million hit in massive Ticketmaster data breach — what to do now

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Paying exorbitant prices for concert tickets is bad enough but now it appears that one of the most popular ticketing service providers worldwide has suffered a major data breach that affects over half a billion customers.

As reported by Mashable, Ticketmaster is the latest big company to fall victim to a data breach, though the firm has yet to confirm this. Still, a prominent hacker group is claiming to have stolen the customer data of close to 560 million of the service’s users.

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