In April 2024 a hacker going by ShinyHunters posted a message on a Russian forum. He was selling 1.3 terabytes of customer data from Ticketmaster. 560 million customers. Names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, partial credit card numbers, transaction histories. Everything. Asking price: 500,000 dollars in cryptocurrency.
Snowflake and the door you left open yourself
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