Ticketfly is down again.
Last Thursday, May 31, the ticketing website was shut down due to a "cyber incident," where a hacker defaced the homepage and stole customers' personal data after exposing a security flaw and demanding a ransom of one bitcoin to fix it (via Motherboard).
Ticketfly reportedly went back up on Saturday, June 2, but as of Tuesday, June 3, the website is down again.
This comes after Tony Hunt, the founder of Have I Been Pwned — a website that allows you to check whether your email address has been leaked — said that the Ticketfly hacker leaked personal information for more than 26 million Ticketfly users.
"The hacker posted several Ticketfly database files to a public server, and Hunt found that they contained 26,151,608 email addresses," Engadget wrote. "Many users' names, phone numbers and home and billing addresses were also compromised."
This may be a good time to remind you that a few of Tampa Bay record stores and bars like Daddy Kool, Microgroove and The Hub are good places to buy tickets in person.
This article appears in May 31 – Jun 7, 2018.