Eventbrite sued over Ticketfly data breach

Ticketfly's parent company has been hit with a class-action suit which claims it didn't do enough to prevent a cyberattack in late May

The suit was filed in the circuit court of Cook County, Illinois © Seth Anderson

Eventbrite is facing a class-action lawsuit over allegations Ticketfly’s “lax cybersecurity procedures” allowed hackers to gain access to 27 million customers’ personal data in May’s cyberattack.

Personal information including names, addresses, email addresses and phone numbers was stolen in the data breach, which led to a week-long shutdown of all Ticketfly services, as well as a number of Ticketfly.com-based venue websites, and forced several promoter partners to push back onsales or migrate to parent company Eventbrite’s platform.

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