Officials in Queens, New York, arrest two individuals for exploiting a backdoor at a StubHub contractor to intercept and re-sell almost 1,000 tickets to popular events.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, two cybercriminals who stole and re-sold hundreds of digital tickets to different concerts and sporting events like the U.S. Open have been arrested by

Two people have been charged with infiltrating StubHub’s backend and stealing over $635,000 worth of tickets, including to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour.

The Queens District Attorney’s Office charged Tyrone Rose and Shamara Simmons for their involvement in an alleged scheme in which they exploited a loophole through an offshore ticket vendor for StubHub. According to the prosecutors, they intercepted already-sold ticket URLs by accessing the company’s network and resold them.

The perpetrators allegedly used backdoor access to StubHub's platform to redirect hundreds of tickets to concerts by Taylor Swift and more

New York prosecutors say that two people working at a third-party contractor for the StubHub online ticket marketplace made $635,000 after almost 1,000 concert tickets and reselling them online.

Two people allegedly stole URLs to more than 900 concert tickets, the majority of which were for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, according to the office of Queens District Melinda Katz.The

Two people stand accused of taking hundreds of tickets from StubHub to redirect them to others who resold them, prosecutors said.

Nearly 1,000 tickets to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour were allegedly stolen and resold for $635,000 in a sophisticated hacking scheme, according to New York prosecutors.

On Monday, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that two individuals “were arrested and arraigned for their role in the cybercrime theft of more than 900 concert tickets,” most of them for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour.