Ticketmaster will pay $10M for hacking rival ticket seller
>Ticketmaster apparently lost access to the system by 2015, the same year CrowdSurge merged with Songkick. Songkick sued Live Nation and Ticketmaster for violating antitrust laws. But it soon sold or shut down its services, and in 2018, it accepted a $110 million settlement — plus an undisclosed sum to sell some of its remaining assets to Ticketmaster.<p>>Ticketmaster expressed satisfaction with the outcome in a statement<p>Crime pays off, in the end.