Ticket Brokers
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![Ticketmaster Used Revolving Barcodes to Control Ticket Resale Market and Surveil Customers, DOJ Alleges](/content/images/size/w1000/2024/08/Screen-Shot-2024-08-21-at-5.35.31-AM.png)
Ticketmaster
Ticketmaster Used Revolving Barcodes to Control Ticket Resale Market and Surveil Customers, DOJ Alleges
"We now not only know the person that bought the ticket, but we’re going to know those three people that you are taking to the show, which we have not known historically."
![The Ticketmaster Hack Is Becoming a Logistical Nightmare for Fans and Brokers](/content/images/size/w1000/2024/07/CleanShot-2024-07-09-at-10.02.08@2x-1.png)
Ticketmaster
The Ticketmaster Hack Is Becoming a Logistical Nightmare for Fans and Brokers
The latest dump includes ticket data, which means fans' tickets can be stolen if Ticketmaster doesn't reissue them. "This is really really really really bad," one broker told 404 Media.
![Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets](/content/images/size/w1000/2024/07/Screen-Shot-2024-07-08-at-6.39.45-AM.png)
Tickets
Scalpers Work With Hackers to Liberate Ticketmaster's ‘Non-Transferable’ Tickets
Scalpers have reverse-engineered how Ticketmaster creates tickets, and are now generating and selling them on their own parallel infrastructure.
![Credit Card Point Maxers Are Secretly Buying Tickets for Olivia Rodrigo Resellers](/content/images/size/w1000/2023/10/Screenshot-2023-10-03-at-7.37.24-AM.png)
Features
Credit Card Point Maxers Are Secretly Buying Tickets for Olivia Rodrigo Resellers
Ticket resellers are turning members of a credit card churning "buyers club" into their personal ticket-buying army for the Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo tours.
![Why Scalpers Can Get Olivia Rodrigo Tickets and You Can't](/content/images/size/w1000/2023/09/unnamed.png)
News
Why Scalpers Can Get Olivia Rodrigo Tickets and You Can't
Ticketmaster's "Verified Fan" system doesn't help fans. It helps scalpers who have hundreds of accounts, use special internet browsers, and have dozens of credit cards.