“The illegal access was projected on a conference room’s screen in front of at least 14 Live Nation and Ticketmaster employees.”
Stephen Mead took a $52,970 separation payment from CrowdSurge to keep its secrets, then handed its passwords to his Ticketmaster colleagues and told them to “screen-grab the hell out of the system.” His sentence is one year of supervised release and $67,970 in forfeiture. Live Nation later bought CrowdSurge’s parent as part of a $110 million settlement. The victim ended up owned by the company that hacked it.