AI-Assisted Discovery Reveals Flaw in US Festival Ticketing Network
Security researcher Ian Carroll used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 to uncover a vulnerability in Front Gate Tickets’ system that could grant a super-admin the ability to issue any festival tickets and access millions of customer and staff records. The flaw was patched within 24 hours, and there’s no evidence of exploitation, illustrating both AI’s potential to uncover web vulnerabilities and the risks of centralized festival-ticketing platforms.