Hacker News Reader

At least one of the individuals involved in this TicketMaster hacking pleaded guilty to the hacking.

"The charges against Ticketmaster come 26 months after Zeeshan Zaidi, the former head of Ticketmaster’s artist services division, pled guilty in a related case to conspiring to hack the rival company and engage in wired fraud."

View on HN

Unless some high-level execs are convicted and put in jail, and the company is given a high-enough file[1], this is the cost of doing business.

[1] 2 years of net profits? 50% of gross revenue? IDK. It has to be meaningful amount to truly deter criminal acts.

Zaidi has been convicted. He's awaiting sentencing.

Arguably a single conviction won't achieve anything. If it's just one sucker who gets taken out (years later) as a result of an incredibly profitable scam, it's easy to convince your employees that they won't be the one to take the fall. If you have a significant portion of the executive team or other leadership getting punished it sets a clearer example.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com