Ticketmaster Hacked: Customer Data Stolen and Shopped on Dark Web by ‘Criminal Threat Actor,’ Live Nation Discloses

Surrendering to pressure from several music acts and an ad-hoc movement, Barclays has suspended its sponsorship of all 2024 music festivals organized by Live Nation in the UK.

Barclays on Friday suspended its sponsorship of all Live Nation music festivals in 2024 after various acts dropped out in protest over the bank’s links to defense companies that work with Israel.The suspension includes upcoming Live Nation festivals across the UK this summer, including Latitude, Download and the Isle of Wight.“The protesters’ agenda is to have Barclays debank defense companies which is a sector we remain committed to as an essential part of keeping this country and our allies safe,” the bank’s spokesperson told Reuters.The suspension comes after several artists, including country singer CMAT, metal band Ithaca and comedian Joanne McNally, pulled out of the events.Last month, Barclay’s annual shareholders’ meeting was disrupted by activists protesting against its alleged indirect links to violence in Gaza.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Françoise Hardy, a French singer, actor and model whose classical beauty and often melancholy music combined to transfix fans internationally in the 1960s and beyond, has died at age 80. Her son, Thomas Dutronc, also a musician, reported the death on his Instagram account, posting a baby photo of himself with his mother and writing: “Maman est partie.” Or, mom is gone.

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A man has been arrested on suspicion of malicious communications follow a bomb hoax in Manchester. Police were called to reports of a bomb threat at the Abraham Moss Centre on Crescent Road on Saturday (June 8).

Ian McKellen gave life to Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies, and as Peter Jackson returns to Middle-earth with The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, many fans want to know if the actor would reprise his role.

The brave widow of Tom Parker, Kelsey, has spoken out about the terrifying moment when their medical team first believed he had just three weeks left to live after being diagnosed with a rare brain tumour.Tom, our beloved Bolton-born boy from pop sensation group The Wanted, tragically lost his battle to brain cancer on 30th March 2022 at aged 33. Brave Kelsey, who recently opened up to OK! on dealing with the anniversary, is now raising their two young children Aurelia and Bodhi solo since the heartbreak. Speaking candidly about her journey and loss, Kelsey guest appeared on GB News where she took the opportunity to urge the NHS to inject more funding towards the fight against brain tumours.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer For those who weren’t able to snag tickets to Kendrick Lamar’s upcoming Los Angeles show The Pop Out — Ken and Friends, Amazon Music has come to the rescue with the announcement that its hip-hop and R&B brand Rotation will livestream the concert. Tickets for the show, taking place on June 19 at the Kia Forum, sold out instantly when they went on sale to the general public earlier today.

Fair City and P.S. I Love You, has died.The Irish actor was best known for her time across film, television and theatre, and her standout roles included playing the character Angela O’Connell in the Irish soap opera Fair City between 2005 and 2016, and Rose Kennedy in P.S. I Love You.She is recognised for playing Mrs Rabbitte in the hit film The Commitments too.

Ariana Madix and Katie Maloney had a very special visitor at Something About Her!

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Georgina Rodríguez and Cristiano Ronaldo continue exploring beautiful places in the region and enjoying them with their children. Last March, the model and the soccer star visited an exclusive island in the Red Sea and fell in love with its beautiful white sandy beaches and turquoise waters.

Hackread (via Billboard), the compromise in data was carried out by a well known hacker group called ShinyHunters, who claimed that they had stolen 1.3 terabytes of data from Ticketmaster.Details obtained from the 560million customers include full names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, ticket sales and event details, order information, and partial payment card data. They have threatened to sell the data for $500,000 (£393,800).The ticketing company previously urged its users to carry out checks due to the data breach.Live Nation has now confirmed the matter in an SEC filing on Friday (May 31).

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Donald Trump gained millions of followers on TikTok in the hours after launching an account on the short-form video app — which, when he occupied the White House, he had threatened with a nationwide ban unless Chinese internet giant ByteDance sold control of TikTok to U.S.-based entities. Trump’s first TikTok on @realdonaldtrump, posted late Saturday night (June 1), shows the ex-president greeting fans at the UFC 302 fight in Newark, N.J. “The president is now on TikTok,” UFC CEO Dana White says in the video.

Ticketmaster has been hacked by cyber attackers who are allegedly offering to sell customer data on dark web.

In an unsettling end-of-week regulatory filing, Ticketmaster parent Live Nation Entertainment reported Friday that it had caught a hacker trying to sell user data via the dark web.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Live Nation is a monopoly that likely will be broken up as a result of the Department of Justice’s antitrust lawsuit filed last week, says Jay Marciano, CEO of AEG Presents, in an internal memo obtained by Variety. AEG Presents is the world’s second-largest live-entertainment company and Live Nation’s chief competitor. “AEG has long maintained that Ticketmaster has a monopoly in the U.S.

Hackread (via Billboard), the compromise in data was carried out by a well known hacker group called ShinyHunters, who claim that they have stolen 1.3 terabytes of data from Ticketmaster.Details obtained from the 560million customers include full names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, ticket sales and event details, order information, and partial payment card data. They are threatening to sell the data for $500,000 (£393,800).Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, has yet to acknowledge whether the reported data breach has in fact taken place.

Northern Irish rock band Snow Patrol have announced a huge eight-date tour featuring a gig at Manchester’s Co-op Live next year.

concert ticket prices and hurt artists.“It is time to break up Live Nation,” said US Attorney General Merrick Garland.Concert fans and politicians for years have been calling for a re-examination of Live Nation’s purchase of Ticketmaster in 2010, especially after the ticket seller in 2022 botched sales to Taylor Swift’s first concert tour in years, sending fans into hours-long online queues, charging prices that customers said were too high and drawing charges of poor service.Thursday’s legal action underscores the aggressive approach President Biden’s antitrust enforcers have adopted as they seek to create more competition in a wide range of industries, from Big Tech to healthcare to groceries.“Live Nation relies on unlawful, anticompetitive conduct to exercise its monopolistic control over the live events industry in the United States at the cost of fans, artists, smaller promoters, and venue operators,” Garland said, adding that as a result fans pay more in fees, artists have fewer opportunities to perform and smaller promoters get squeezed out.Shares of Live Nation were trading down 5%.Live Nation called the suit a possible “PR win for the DOJ in the short term,” but said the entertainment company would prevail in court. The lawsuit “won’t solve the issues fans care about relating to ticket prices, service fees, and access to in-demand shows.”“There is more competition than ever in the live events market,” it added.The suit says Live Nation directly manages more than 400 musical artists and controls around 60% of concert promotions at major venues.