Ticketek
What was exposed
Dates of birthEmail addressesGendersNamesPasswordsSalutations
What to do if you were affected
- Change your password for this account, and anywhere you reused it. Turn on two-factor authentication.
- Expect more phishing and spam at this address. Treat messages that reference this company with extra caution.
- Be wary of targeted scams that use your personal details to sound convincing.
Details
In May 2024, the Australian event ticketing company Ticketek reported a data breach linked to a third party cloud-based platform . The following month, the data appeared for sale on a popular hacking forum and was later linked to a series of breaches of the Snowflake cloud storage service. The data contained almost 30M rows with 17.6M unique email addresses alongside names, genders, dates of birth and hashed passwords.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Ticketek data breach?
In May 2024, the Australian event ticketing company Ticketek reported a data breach linked to a third party cloud-based platform . The following month, the data appeared for sale on a popular hacking forum and was later linked to a series of breaches of the...
When did the data breach happen?
This data breach occurred around May 2024.
How many accounts were affected?
Around 17,643,173 accounts were affected.
What information was exposed?
Exposed data included Dates of birth, Email addresses, Genders, Names, Passwords and Salutations.
What should I do if I was affected?
Change your password for this account, and anywhere you reused it. Turn on two-factor authentication. Expect more phishing and spam at this address. Treat messages that reference this company with extra caution. Be wary of targeted scams that use your personal details to sound convincing.
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