Eventbrite-owned ticket distribution service Ticketfly has taken its website offline today after a hacker defaced its frontpage and stole a part of its customer database.
The hack has taken place late yesterday night (US timezones), on May 30. At that time, users trying to purchase tickets reported that the Ticketfly website was showing a defacement message with the now infamous "V for Vendetta" character, the symbol of the Anonymous hacker collective.
"Ticketfly HacKeD By IsHaKdZ," read the website, and "Your Security Down im Not Sorry."
User data briefly available online
Ticketfly admins did eventually discover the hack, but before they took down the defacement message and put the site in maintenance mode, a user also noticed that many CSV files containing user data were also freely accessible via one of the site's URLs.
