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security and exchange commission, the owners of ticketmaster indicated there had been malicious forces involved and a cyber attack. we are still waiting for some more details from ticketmaster as it stands but earlier this week, 560 million ticketmaster customers had their data and information obtained by a company called shinyhunters, they said they obtained ticketmaster s data. that includes names, addresses, phone numbers and from what we understand, partial credit cards. shinyhunters say they have demanded £500,000 ransom to prevent the data from being sold on to other platforms but that is still to be worked out. santander, as you say, a banking group, operating around the world said yesterday they had been involved in a hack with the same company and some of their customers and colleagues had had information hacked in chile, spain and uruguay. the company shinyhunters have also
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millions have given over their data. it was first reported on thursday when hackers said they had hacked ticketmaster but there was no confirmation of that but this morning in a filing in the us in the security and exchange commission, the owners of ticketmaster indicated there had been malicious forces involved and a cyber attack. we are still waiting for some more details from ticketmaster as it stands but earlier this week, 560 million ticketmaster customers had their data and information obtained by a company called shinyhunters, they said they obtained ticketmaster s data. that includes names, addresses, phone numbers and from what we understand, partial credit cards. shinyhunters say they have demanded £500,000 ransom to prevent the data from being sold on to other platforms but that is still to be worked out. santander, as you say, a banking group operating around the world said yesterday they had been involved in a hack with the same company and some
of unauthorised activity on its data base. shinyhunters, a hacking group, claims to have 560 million customers personal details and partial credit card information. this number is still to be confirmed. the hackers want $500,000 in ransom. with millions using ticketmaster for tours like taylor swift or bruce springsteen, social media users have expressed concern about their accounts and tickets. they will be looking to exploit this potentially. cyber security experts are warning opportunistic scammers will now be trying to exploit concern about the breach. if you receive an e mail, if you receive a text message, if you receive a whatsapp message that in any way talks about this breach and this hack, be very, very careful. the second thing, don t click on links. don t click on any link that you receive through e mail or text message or whatsapp whatsoever. and the third thing is, especially if you click on that link and it says enter your details to check if you are in the breach or so