Ex-Ticketmaster boss sentenced for hacking rival company CrowdSurge

a former head of Ticket Master who gained unauthorized access to the Computer Service of a competitor business in order to steal data has been punished Steven me a British national stole confidential information from cow surge a smaller company he had previously worked for between 2013 and 2015 his activities had a direct impact on the company's demise according to the New York Department of Justice in June me entered a guilty plea to the charge of conspiring to hack cow surge's computer system he has now been sentenced to a year of supervised release and forced to pay a forfeiture of $67,900 about £52,000 Executives at Ticket Master had requested that me provide competitive intelligence about the company according to court documents submitted in a US state the BBC asked Ticket Master for comment and the company did not reply Ticket Master bills itself as the largest entertainment ticketing platform in the world