Ex-employees of a former StubHub vendor allegedly redirected and resold nearly 1,000 concert tickets for Taylor Swift, Adele and Ed Sheeran, among others.
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.
The perpetrators allegedly used backdoor access to StubHub's platform to redirect hundreds of tickets to concerts by Taylor Swift and more
Employees of a third-party company hacked into StubHub's computer system, stole almost 1,000 digital tickets to Taylor Swift concerts and other events, and emailed them to conspirators in New York, who then sold them on StubHub in a scheme that brought them $635,
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.