Tech your username December 31, 2020 Yesterday, the Department of Justice announced that the event and concert ticket distributor and seller Ticketmaster will pay a $10 million criminal fine for unlawfully accessing a competitorâs computer system. According to the press release, the penalty is a component of a deferred prosecution agreement Ticketmaster and the United States Attorneyâs Office entered into to resolve a five-count criminal information filed on Dec. 30 charging Ticketmaster with computer intrusion and fraud offenses. According to this weekâs announcement, the âvictim companyâ offered artists the ability to sell presale tickets online and offered a feature known as the âArtist Toolbox,â a password-protected app that provided real-time data about tickets sold through the company. In 2013, an unnamed former employee of the victim company began to work for Live Nation Entertainment, Inc., Ticketmasterâs parent company, and reportedly took proprietary information with them.