MSG’s Secret VIP Database and the Data Breach That Exposed It
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A WIRED investigation reveals Madison Square Garden maintained a VIP 'talent' database that labeled hundreds of celebrities by risk and even tagged LGBTQIA attendees, while a separate Salesforce database left more than 10 million records exposed in a ShinyHunters hack; attackers used vishing to breach MSG’s security, exposing emails, phone numbers and birth dates and prompting lawsuits and scrutiny over the venue’s surveillance and data-retention practices.
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