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Ticketmaster Hacker Demands $500K Ransom (Plus $300K Ransom Processing Fee, $220K Ransom Handling Fee) (theshovel.com.au)

submitted 5 months ago by ZeroCool@vger.social to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] spriteblood@kbin.social 40 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm 100% not okay with stealing and ransoming people's personal information, but this makes me want to be 99% not okay with it.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I am 100% ok with ransoming companies with poor security.

We balance each other out. I’ll never feel sorry for a corporation and ticket master are one of the worst.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

it's not the company that suffers though, everyone already has their personal data ...

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That’s inevitable at this point anyway. If you’re that concerned then change what you can every time there is a breach.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

your comment implies we already aren't doing that.

do not project your apathy toward your own privacy onto the rest of us.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de -1 points 5 months ago

I change all the time.

I am apathetic towards a lot of things, but my privacy isn’t one.

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago

You know this affected a bunch of individual humans, many of whom skipped meals and other things, to buy an overpriced ticket for a moment of brightness in a life of drudgery?

[–] Miaou@jlai.lu 2 points 5 months ago

Fuck hospitals and end users then? The party losing the most here is certainly not ticketmaster

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 10 points 5 months ago

Yeah the hackers can get fucked. But Ticketmaster can go get fucked more.