Live Nation confirms Ticketmaster was hacked, says personal information stolen in data breach

Live Nation disclosed a May 20 breach affecting its Ticketmaster subsidiary after a cybercriminal offered alleged company user data for sale on the dark web. The stolen data is reported to have come from a third-party cloud database (identified by Ticketmaster as Snowflake), TechCrunch validated thousands of records including internal Ticketmaster emails, and forum posts claim a much larger dataset; investigations and notifications to affected parties and authorities are ongoing.