Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business
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Re: Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business
#2It's fairly frustrating that no one is going to prison over this 100% greed-motivated, brazen corporate crime.
Re: Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business
#3A corporation criminally hacked a rival for profit and got away with a small fine.
A person doing the exact same thing would be heading to prison.
Seems like the same crime has a very different outcome when a corporation commits it.
Re: Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business
#4It's fairly frustrating that no one is going to prison over this 100% greed-motivated, brazen corporate crime.
At least one actual human has plead guilty: "The charges against Ticketmaster come 26 months after Zeeshan Zaidi, the former head of Ticketmaster’s artist services division, pled guilty in a related case to conspiring to hack the rival company and engage in wired [sic] fraud."
He appears to be awaiting sentencing.
Re: Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business
#5What terribly worded and confusing as fuck title.
In case anyone was wondering, who, specifically went out of business:
> Court documents didn’t identify the rival company, but Variety reported it was Songkick, which in 2017 filed a lawsuit accusing Ticketmaster of hacking its database. A few months later, Songkick went out of business.
Re: Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business
#6A corporation criminally hacked a rival for profit and got away with a small fine. A person doing the exact same thing would be heading to prison. Seems like the same crime has a very different outcome when a corporation commits it.
The article notes that Zeeshan Zaidi, a Ticketmaster exec, plead guilty to violating the CFAA and to wire fraud in 2019, and is apparently still awaiting sentencing.
You can read the criminal complaint: https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nyed.439451...
Re: Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business
#7I hate the way this article is worded. Or perhaps the problem is the source documents.
"Ticketmaster" didn't do anything. Ticketmaster is a company which cannot make decisions or take actions.
- An employee at Ticketmaster stole a password (and financial documents)
- Multiple other Ticketmaster employees abused that stolen information to actively attack a competitor.
- Ticketmaster management was aware of this and rewarded that employee with a promotion and additional responsibilities.
Both the thief and the managers who rewarded the the thief should be going to jail. Instead the company is paying a small fine. I guess at least someone is going to prison, but I doubt all of the parties who were aware are. As usual, the executives in charge walk away.
Hopefully there is a class action lawsuit by the shareholders/ owners of this company against Ticketmaster.
Re: Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business
#8This is sad that larger companies have a fear of the new kids on the block. When in fact, large companies should be embracing the young companies.
Re: Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business
#9I hate the way this article is worded. Or perhaps the problem is the source documents. "Ticketmaster" didn't do anything. Ticketmaster is a company which cannot make decisions or take actions. - An employee at Ticketmaster stole a password (and financial documents) - Multiple other Ticketmaster employees abused that stolen information to actively attack a competitor. - Ticketmaster management was aware of this and re…
"Ticketmaster" didn't do anything. Ticketmaster is a company which cannot make decisions or take actions.
It's sad that people can write things like this and still expect to have their opinions taken seriously.
Re: Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business
#10Why are the people who did the hacking and those who ordered it not being brought up on criminal charges? How the heck is it that we have a legal system that shields criminals so long as the crime is in service to a large corporation?