in a concerning development a hacker is selling customer data allegedly stolen from TEEG and australia-based live events in ticketing company on a prominent hacking Forum on Thursday the hacker claimed to possess information on 30 million users including full names genders dates of birth usernames hashed passwords and email addresses in late May teag owned Ticketek disclosed a data breach affecting Australian customers data the company stated that no tich customer accounts were compromised due to the encryption methods used for passwords however names dates of birth and email addresses may have been impacted the hacker posted a sample of the alleged data attempts to sign up with the published email addresses resulted in errors on Ticketek website indicating these addresses are already in use a te spokesperson declined to comment on the situation when reached by email Ticketek official site States the company sells over 23 million tickets to more than 20,000 events each year though Ticketek did not name the cloud-based platform evidence suggests it could be snowflake a now deleted post on snowflakes website and a 2022 case study by consulting company Altus indicate a collaboration between Snowflake and teed when asked about the breach snowflake spokesperson Danica stac referred to a public statement snowflakes Chief Information Security Officer Brad Jones asserted there was no evidence of a vulnerability Mis configuration or breach in their platform snowflake provides cloud storage Services globally and is currently investigating the breach with cyber security firm mandiant they revealed that around 165 snowflake customers were notified snowflake attributes the hacking campaign to customers not using multiactor authentication which allowed hackers to exploit previously stolen passwords this incident highlights the critical importance of robust cyber security measures and the potential risks associated with cloud-based data storage don't forget to like this video And subscribe to Starlight Tech news for more updates on the network and system security landscape thanks for watching