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Ticketmaster employees accessed a competitor's computers using stolen passwords
- meowface 6y ago>A press release by federal prosecutors said Ticketmaster employees held a division-wide summit during which the stolen passwords were used to access the victim company's computers "as if that were an appropriate business tactic." >According to the deferred prosecution agreement, a Ticketmaster executive described that the goal was to "choke off" the victim company and "steal back" one of its clients. This sounds insane. The article started out just describing a single employee abusing their unrevoked access to their previous company's systems, but it's mind-boggling that executives and huge swaths of the company would openly and actively participate. That sounds more unethical than even the shadiest of the Uber "intelligence gathering" revelations.
- tyingq 6y agoA bit of irony, as people that were scraping Ticketmaster ended up with Federal charges and took a plea deal. Pretty interesting story on how it worked, here: https://www.vice.com/en/article/mgxqb8/the-man-who-broke-ticketmaster https://www.vice.com/en/article/mgxqb8/the-man-who-broke-tic... The plea deal: https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/newark/press-releases/2010/nk111810.htm https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/newark/press-releases/2010... The eventual sentences: https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/nj/Press/files/Lowson,%20Kenneth%20et%20al%20News%20Release.html https://www.justice.gov/archive/usao/nj/Press/files/Lowson,%...
- lolol20201 6y agoThis is what happens when you pay your company in peanuts when there's no more circus...
- alexfromapex 6y agoNice to see them get in trouble for being anticompetitive for once. Would love for this to become trendy.