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“[This] resolution demonstrates that any company that obtains a competitor’s confidential information for commercial advantage, without authority or permission, should expect to be held accountable in federal court,” said Acting Brooklyn U.S. Attorney DuCharme.
Ticketmaster Pays $10M Fine for Intrusions into Competitor’s Computer Systems
By Forum Staff
Ticketmaster has agreed to pay a $10 million fine to resolve charges that it repeatedly accessed without authorization the computer systems of a competitor, federal prosecutors recently announced.
The fine is part of a deferred prosecution agreement that Ticketmaster has entered with the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney’s Office to resolve a five-count criminal information charging computer intrusion and fraud offenses. Previously, on Oct. 18, 2019, Zeeshan Zaidi, the former head of Ticketmaster’s Artist Services division, pleaded guilty in a related case to conspiring to commit computer intrusions and wire fraud based on his participation in the same scheme.