{"id":119392,"date":"2025-03-06T18:01:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/03\/06\/hackers-accused-of-stealing-reselling-taylor-swift-concert-tickets\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T18:01:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T18:01:33","slug":"hackers-accused-of-stealing-reselling-taylor-swift-concert-tickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/03\/06\/hackers-accused-of-stealing-reselling-taylor-swift-concert-tickets\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers accused of stealing, reselling Taylor Swift concert tickets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-03-06\/M_TaylorSwiftErasTourcolorbkgrd_052523.jpg\" alt><figcaption>TAS Rights Management<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Getting tickets for <strong>Taylor Swift<\/strong>&#8216;s Eras Tour was so tough that even Taylor described it as going through &#8220;several bear attacks.&#8221; But now comes word that two accused hackers were literally stealing tickets from some fans who were lucky enough to have secured them.<\/p>\n<p>Two people are accused of scheming to steal over $600,000 worth of Eras Tour tickets, as well as tickets to other high-profile music events like <strong>Ed Sheeran<\/strong> and<strong> Adele<\/strong> concerts.\u00a0According to the Queens district attorney, <strong>Tyrone Rose<\/strong> and <strong>Shamar Simmons<\/strong> were arrested and charged with grand larceny, conspiracy and computer tampering.<\/p>\n<p>Between the summer of 2022 and 2023, the pair allegedly exploited a loophole through an offshore vendor for the ticket resale website StubHub, which allowed them to intercept already-sold ticket URLs, then resell them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The two are expected to appear in court for arraignment on Friday. They could face sentences of\u00a0three to 15 years if they&#8217;re convicted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ABC News contributor and former FBI Special Agent <strong>Brad Garrett<\/strong> told <em>Good Morning America<\/em>, &#8220;You can imagine how frustrating it would be to get there and realize that you don&#8217;t have a ticket anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s always going to be people attempting to hack into systems,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And so companies need to acquire the most professional, aggressive cyber security companies they can find.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAS Rights Management Getting tickets for Taylor Swift&#8216;s Eras Tour was so tough that even Taylor described it as going through &#8220;several bear attacks.&#8221; But now comes word that two accused hackers were literally stealing tickets from some fans who were lucky enough to have secured them. Two people are<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/03\/06\/hackers-accused-of-stealing-reselling-taylor-swift-concert-tickets\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}