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Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival

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Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival

A researcher demonstrated that Claude Opus 4.7 could be used to identify vulnerabilities in Front Gate's ticketing system, which serves major US music festivals including Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo, potentially enabling unauthorized ticket generation. The finding highlights how large language models can be leveraged to discover exploitable weaknesses in widely-used commercial platforms.

Why it matters: This demonstrates an AI model's capability to facilitate unauthorized access to critical infrastructure; organizations using Front Gate and similar systems should immediately assess their security controls and consider restrictions on LLM usage for sensitive systems.

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Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival

A researcher demonstrated that Claude Opus 4.7 could be used to break into Front Gate's website, a ticketing platform used by major US music festivals including Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo, and generate unauthorized tickets. The vulnerability highlights risks of large language models assisting in unauthorized system access and ticket fraud schemes.

Why it matters: Concert venue operators and festival organizers using Front Gate face immediate ticket inventory and fraud exposure. Security teams should assess whether LLM-assisted attacks on their ticketing infrastructure are plausible and audit access controls.

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