StubHub contractors ‘stole and resold 900+ tickets’

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 contractor for StubHub allegedly stole more than 900 tickets to the Taylor Swift Eras Tour and other events and then resold them for more than $600,000 in illegal profit, New York prosecutors say.

According to prosecutors, the tickets were stolen by two employees at a third-party contractor for StubHub in Jamaica called Sutherland, who then emailed them to other members of a “cybercrime crew” in New York who resold them on the platform for a windfall.

The 993…

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