Ticketfly Temporarily Shuts Down To Investigate 'Cyber Incident' (engadget.com)

Earlier today, ticket distribution service Ticketfly shut down after a "cyber incident" compromised its systems. A hacker reportedly defaced the company's website and claimed to have compromised the "backstage" database where festivals, promoters and venues manage their events. Engadget reports: The intrusion might have started through Ticketfly's Wordpress blog -- the hacker claimed to have downloaded and posted this on Ticketfly's site before it was taken down. The firm hasn't said when it expects services to return to normal, and it has yet to gauge the full extent of the breach. It took everything down out of an "abundance of caution," according to a spokesperson. According to Motherboard, the hacker apparently demanded a single bitcoin to divulge the vulnerability that left Ticketfly open to attack. You can view the FAQ page for more information on the incident.

Comments

Do You even CYBER???!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

If this where 2005 you would be redicuiled off the internet, Unless your in neuromancer you don't cyber, anything ever please go back into our coffen and DIAF

Re: Do You even CYBER???!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

A/S/L

Want to cyber?

Re:Do You even CYBER???!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

"redicuiled "

It's 2018. Spell check exists. You should be ridiculed for your tardulated spelling.

" Unless your in neuromancer"

Why a capital "u", you meant you're, and "Neuromancer" needs a capital "n".

"please go back into our coffen "

Our what?

Re:Do You even CYBER???!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Not the original AC, but could you spelling nazi's perhaps take whatever ass burger medication you need so you stop being so obsessed about spelling, you know exactly what the guy said it is plain as day yet your still grumbling like he has become incomprehensible. Jeez dude, just worry about what he said not the nitty titty about how he said it.

Re:Do You even CYBER???!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

what the fuck is a "tardulated"? kettle, pot. pot, kettle.

You know, just once

[bobstreo]

I'd like a company to apologize for being short sighted and cheaping out on security for short term financial gains.

Not that it will ever happen.

Re:You know, just once

[Errol backfiring]

But, but, We never cheap out on securities on the stock market!

Re:You know, just once

[Anonymous Coward]

I'd like if just once, idiots online would stop pretending like an infant could 100% secure a website.

Re:You know, just once

[Nidi62]

I'd like a company to apologize for being short sighted and cheaping out on security for short term financial gains.

Not that it will ever happen.

Wouldn't admitting fault like that set them up for easy litigation?

Re: You know, just once

[phantomfive]

They most likely don't have anyone on their team who knows how to write secure software, and probably couldn't hire someone even if they wanted to. "Write secure software" is probably the rarest software skill there is. There aren't many people like DJB, although there are a few.

Re:You know, just once

[Anonymous Coward]

But, but, Chrstine Peterson LIES about being a nanotech expert and LIES about coining the term "open source" and while the rest of the world does NOTHING we here at Slashdot KICK THE BUMS OUT.

Not surprising

[Anonymous Coward]

These people had the money to hire real developers and get a full system implemented, quite frankly shame on them for even putting a wordpress site out there that conducts financial transactions. If anything I would say they were criminally negligent and should be held to account for it along with the hacker.

In a similar vein if they had constructed a stadium out of paper mache and invited thousands of people in then had the whole thing collapse and cause injury they would be at fault for sub par architecture that was obviously going to fail. I do not entirely see the difference when you construct a website performing transactions with sub par architecture and then people get their data stolen, or worse get their money stolen.

Re:Not surprising

[Anonymous Coward]

This would require Professional Engineering license (PE like EE), standards (like ASTM), lawmakers who care about safety...yeah...

Re:Not surprising

[Anonymous Coward]

You are correct, that is why I advocate that web development should have some form of tiers to it. You get your basic web developers who do wordpress sites that are more or less posters at the bottom tier, you go up a tier when you are handling multi user interaction (this would be where EU privacy laws have effect, though in my opinion they should be common world laws for our privacy as a human right) and you go up another tier when you get into financial transactions.

Everyone else in the world has to obey a plethora of laws to build an institution (business) that sells items from health and safety inspections to architectural planning to zoning by laws. Yet when your doing the exact same thing online suddenly it is willy nilly and we can just put it together with rubber bands and spit.

I do not really want it to get to that sort of cumbersome oversight but at the same time I do not want my information or money stolen because a company or corporations with millions of dollars decided to only spend 150 bucks hiring sheila the receptionists nephew to design the website.

The fact that it was wordpress just boggles the mind, what the hell were they thinking?

Re: Not surprising

[Anonymous Coward]

Professional engineers built the pedestrian bridge in Florida, yet the first working airplane was built by men without even a high school education.

Re: Not surprising

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, but they built a business site off wordpress. That is a little more like those guys who used to run off the pier with plywood tied to their arms only to inevitably splash down into the water below. Even the wright brothers had to learn something about aeronautics to get the thing to fly.

Ever wonder why they put a

[Anonymous Coward]

y in cyber and not an i?

  Now you do!

Re:Ever wonder why they put a

[MiniMike]

It could be because "ciber" is too close to "cider" and all the stories about "cider-security incidents" and "cider-security threats" would make people who read too quickly worry about wtf was going on in apple orchards, and do they need to surround their orchards with more trees like those "firwalls" they keep hearing about? Chaos, panic, and a poor apple harvest would have soon followed.

That's why they chose y.

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Ticketfly produces cybernetics enhancements?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is the incident involving some kind of cyborg?

They Should Of Used A Hosts File

[Anonymous Coward]

Any Organization Serious About Security Would Of Used A Hosts File To Protect And Secure There World Wide Web Sight.

They Were Probably Distracted By All Of Trump's Winning.

There's yer problem!

[cascadingstylesheet]

Well, there's yer problem! You're doing this on that i-Cyber internet thingie!

I found the problem!

[Anonymous Coward]

Wordpress blog.

Good

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck these money-grubbing middlemen. No. Value. Added.