Security News > 2020 > March > Alleged Ticketfly Hacker Indicted for Extortion

At the time of the breach, Ticketfly, which was owned and operated by Eventbrite, sold tickets to concerts and events at nightclubs throughout the U.S. Eventbrite reported that the Ticketfly accounts of about 27 million were compromised; they included personal information, such as names, email addresses, physical addresses and phone numbers, according to ZDNet.

According to the federal indictment, Ishak allegedly damaged the company's website and then attempted to extort the company for money in May of 2018.

After the breach and defacement of the Ticketfly website with mages and a character from the movie "V for Vendetta," the apparent hacker, using the name IsHaKdZ, contacted Vice's Motherboard to share details of the attack and claimed that he told the company about the vulnerability and asked for one bitcoin to share details but never heard back from the firm.

The alleged hacker shared some of the stolen information with the Motherboard journalist, including spreadsheets with names and addresses.

Eventbrite announced in November 2018 that the Ticketfly site would be closed and merged with the company's main ticketing and event website, according to Billboard.

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