A hacker is promoting buyer information allegedly stolen from the Australia-based stay occasions and ticketing firm TEG on a well known hacking discussion board.
On Thursday, a hacker put up on the market the alleged stolen information from TEG, claiming to have info of 30 million customers, together with the total title, gender, date of delivery, username, hashed passwords, and e-mail addresses.
In late Could, TEG-owned ticketing firm Ticketek disclosed an information breach affecting Australian prospects’ information, “which is saved in a cloud-based platform, hosted by a good, international third occasion provider.”
The corporate mentioned that “no Ticketek buyer account has been compromised,” because of the encryption strategies used to retailer their passwords. TEG conceded, nonetheless, that “buyer names, dates of delivery and e-mail addresses could have been impacted” — information that may line up with that marketed on the hacking discussion board.
The hacker included a pattern of the alleged stolen information of their put up. gajed confirmed that at the very least among the information printed on the discussion board seems professional by trying to enroll in new accounts utilizing the printed e-mail addresses. In quite a few instances, Ticketek’s web site gave an error, suggesting the e-mail addresses are already in use.
When reached by e-mail, a spokesperson for TEG didn’t remark by press time.
On its official web site, Ticketek says the corporate “sells over 23 million tickets to greater than 20,000 occasions annually.”
Whereas Ticketek didn’t title the “cloud-based platform, hosted by a good, international third occasion provider,” there’s proof that implies it may very well be Snowflake, which has been on the middle of a current sequence of knowledge thefts affecting a number of of its prospects, together with Ticketmaster, Santander Financial institution, and others.
A now-deleted put up on Snowflake’s web site from January 2023 was titled: “TEG Personalises Dwell Leisure Experiences with Snowflake.” In 2022, consulting firm Altis printed a case examine detailing how the corporate, working with TEG, “constructed a contemporary information platform for ingesting streaming information into Snowflake.”
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When reached for touch upon the Ticketek breach, Snowflake spokesperson Danica Stanczak didn’t reply our particular questions, and as a substitute referred to the corporate’s public assertion. In it, Snowflake chief info safety officer Brad Jones mentioned that the corporate has not “recognized proof suggesting this exercise was brought on by a vulnerability, misconfiguration, or breach of Snowflake’s platform.”
Snowflake’s spokesperson declined to verify or deny whether or not TEG or Ticketek is a Snowflake buyer.
Snowflake offers corporations all around the world with companies that assist its prospects retailer information within the cloud. Cybersecurity agency Mandiant, owned by Google, mentioned earlier this month that cybercriminals have stolen a “important quantity of knowledge” from a number of Snowflake prospects. Mandiant is working with Snowflake to research the info breach, and disclosed in a weblog put up that the 2 corporations have notified round 165 Snowflake prospects.
Snowflake has blamed the hacking marketing campaign on its prospects for not utilizing multi-factor authentication, which allowed hackers to make use of passwords “beforehand bought or obtained via infostealing malware.”