Get Permission Ticketmaster has agreed to pay a $10 million criminal fine to resolve charges that the company illegally accessed an unnamed competitor's computer system on at least 20 separate occasions, using stolen passwords to conduct a cyber espionage operation. Ticketmaster employees repeatedly used stolen login credentials to access the competitor's computer system to collect business intelligence from 2013 to 2015, says Acting U.S. Attorney Seth DuCharme for the Eastern District of New York. The deal resolves a five-count criminal indictment filed Wednesday charging Ticketmaster with computer intrusion and fraud offenses. "Further, Ticketmaster's employees brazenly held a division-wide 'summit' at which the stolen passwords were used to access the victim company's computers as if that were an appropriate business tactic," DuCharme says.