Ticketmaster is facing a class action lawsuit over a hack that affected millions of users

A lawsuit is seeking damages from Ticketmaster after a federal filing revealed that Ticketmaster fell victim to a cyberattack that may have compromised the data of millions of users.

Ticketmaster’s parent company, Live Nation, confirmed the hack in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. On May 20, it identified “unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database environment containing corporate data.”

The lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

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The lawsuit claims that data breaches are “avoidable” and that Ticketmaster’s parent company Live Nation failed to take proper preventative measures.

Live Nation said it subsequently launched an investigation to find out what happened. On May 27, a “criminal threat actor” had offered to sell the data he allegedly stole from Ticketmaster on the dark web, the federal filing said.

“Defendant’s security practices were ineffective because Defendant failed to ensure that its third-party vendors were responsible for their implementation,” the lawsuit said.

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The lawsuit alleges that those whose data was taken suffered a number of injuries, “including, but not limited to: invasion of privacy; theft of their private information; lost or diminished value of private information ; lost time and opportunity costs associated with efforts to mitigate the actual impact of the data breach; and the continued and increased risk of their private information being misused.”

Scripps News has reached out to Ticketmaster for its response to the lawsuit.