Cybercrime crew stole then resold hundreds of tickets to Swift concerts: Prosecutors

A cybercrime unit stole past resold much than 900 integer tickets to Taylor Swift concerts and different pricey events

NEW YORK -- A cybercrime unit stole past resold much than 900 integer tickets to Taylor Swift concerts and different pricey events connected StubHub, according to prosecutors successful New York.

The planetary scam progressive radical moving successful Jamaica for a steadfast contracted by the online summons marketplace, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said Monday.

The contractors stole the URLs of tickets purchased connected StubHub and emailed them to others successful New York, who past downloaded and resold them connected StubHub astatine exorbitant prices, she said.

The unit raked successful much than $600,000 successful profits implicit astir a twelvemonth betwixt June 2022 and July 2023, according to prosecutors.

The bulk of the stolen tickets were for Swift’s Eras Tour, but the thieves besides boosted ones for Adele and Ed Sheeran concerts, NBA games and the U.S. Open Tennis Championships.

Katz added that investigators are inactive determining the grade of the operation, including different imaginable co-conspirators.

Two of those involved, Tyrone Rose and Shamara Simmons, were arrested and charged past Thursday with expansive larceny, machine tampering and conspiracy charges, Katz's bureau said.

Rose, 20, was among those successful Jamaica who re-directed purchased tickets to the emails of Simmons, 31, and different accomplice based successful the New York City borough of Queens, according to prosecutors.

Rose was apprehended portion helium was visiting New York and was ordered to surrender his passport, Katz's bureau said Tuesday. He and Simmons pleaded not blameworthy and were released pending their adjacent tribunal day Friday.

The nationalist defender's bureau representing Rose declined to comment, and lawyers for Simmons didn't instantly respond Tuesday.

StubHub said Tuesday that it had discovered the transgression strategy and reported it to authorities and its third-party lawsuit work vendor.

The institution said it has since terminated its narration with the vendor and strengthened its information measures. All summons orders truthful acold identified arsenic impacted by the theft person besides been replaced oregon afloat refunded, according to StubHub.