Ticketmaster says stolen Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets are useless

The article covers an alleged Ticketmaster/Live Nation data breach where criminals claim to have stolen large numbers of event tickets (including 170k leaked barcodes) and released customer/payment data for roughly one million users from a purported 560 million-record theft. Ticketmaster asserts its SafeTix rotating barcode system prevents stolen barcodes from being used, while the piece also highlights scalpers' technical efforts to reverse-engineer ticket systems and the resulting legal and security arms race between platforms and fraudsters.