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graeghos_714 ,

For the last few years I’ve been going to festivals that avoid fricken Ticketbastard. They’re still expensive but at least the money is going to the people putting it on instead of some corporate heads and hedge funders

spacemanspiffy ,

I have given an unfortunate amount of money to this awful company in the last year. I am sure my info is in this breach.

Sucks, man.

interdimensionalmeme ,

One company has 1 billion customers in the venues rental business ? Why ? Why is that even legal ?

JohnnyCanuck ,
@JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca avatar

It may not be, but where did you get that number? The article (currently) says the data of 560 million ticket-purchasing customers was stolen. I don’t see anything about “venue rentals business” customers, nor about 1 billion customers of any kind.

SoleInvictus ,

I suspect they read the headline as “half of a billion users”.

interdimensionalmeme ,

I accidentally dropped the “half a” but the point stands. No company should have this sort of leverage over half a billion people. Capotalism creates concentration of power in a classic rich gets richer loop. The state is supposed squash them way before they get this osbcenely big.

Hotzilla ,

Waiting for my GDPR notification, which is mandatory by law to give in 72h after they have found out.

GDPR fine can be 2% of global annual revenue.

tiefling , (edited )

Can we get some of that there consumer protection?

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crusa187 ,

For a little while there after 2008, the CFPB had some teeth. It has since been crippled sufficiently to allow the oligarchs’ reign to proceed unencumbered.

jordanlund ,
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

And 400 million scalper accounts. :)

Zaktor ,

Another great example of why monopolies are awesome.

zipzoopaboop ,

Fuck. And I managed to avoid them till a few months ago

CatOnTheChainWax ,

Yep I just got my first free year of credit monitoring form my health insurance company last month yay

RememberTheApollo_ ,

Guess I’ll wait for yet another free credit report monitoring service offers in lieu of anything substantial.

nyahlathotep ,
@nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works avatar

what a gd clownshow

Blackmist ,

Time for them to suffer absolutely no consequences whatsoever.

Rentlar ,

Ticketmaster has struggled with benefited from bad actors online using bots and other methods to disrupt the ticketing service and scoop up tickets to resell. The company also has a history of being the bad actor itself when it comes to electronic data.

Fixed that for the author.

scytale ,

That number wouldn’t have been half a billion if they didn’t have a fucking monopoly on ticket selling and venues.

adarza ,

70 million humans, 490 million bots.

Sanctus ,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

And how does this honestly affect Ticketmaster? I doubt it damages them at all. Their customers are fucked, but do they see this as something they need to keep secure? I doubt they spend that much on security.

catloaf ,

Nah, the settlement to provide credit monitoring is cheaper.

Gerudo ,

It doesn’t, because you HAVE to use them at the vast majority of venues. There is no other choice.

adarza ,

they also own venues, and are also: show producers, promoters, merchandisers… and they might also be the artist’s management.

floofloof OP ,

The customers will obviously go and buy their tickets from the competition instead.

Oh wait…

muse ,
@muse@fedia.io avatar

Hell yeah, being too poor to afford concerts pays off for another decade!

Aceticon ,

Or stingy and aiming at maximum entertainment value for one’s money.

Or simply an introvert who likes tiny obscure stuff in cozy miniscule venues with small audiences rather than massive crowds in gigantic spaces, and is totally happy with being like that hence doesn’t feel the need to simulate extroverteness.

Being part of a minority or two behaviour-wise does have its advantages.

MeekerThanBeaker ,

Am I going to get another free year of credit monitoring?

Awesome. Wow. 🙃

I feel like I get another free year every year from different companies.

Nurse_Robot ,

I don’t even check anymore. I get a credit / “your info was found on the dark web!” Email literally every week, what’s the point. I’ve been fucked by giga corps and I have nothing to show for it besides weekly notifications of my compromised info

dohpaz42 ,
@dohpaz42@lemmy.world avatar

My favorite is when I get emailed by “hackers” who have one of my old passwords. 🤣

7U5K3N ,

That reminds me… I need to renew my ñortõn antiviral softwares for $499.99

pikmeir ,

Dude that’s totally a scam. I’ll do it for only $399.99 but I also need your mother’s maiden name and your favorite book for some reason.

acetanilide ,

I think I’ve gotten 3 or 4 so far this year. All or almost all from medical facilities/services.

ArchRecord ,

The best (worst) part is that they almost always just point you to the ways that you can already request your credit report and monitoring for free from the credit bureaus. 🥲

jaybone ,

And the best part of that is, who ever authorized these credit bureaus to monitor and maintain your credit info in the first place. (Spoiler alert: no one.) And they get hacked every other year anyway.

Imgonnatrythis ,

Really takes the sting right out of your raw asshole when they give you one of those coupons don’t it?

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