Claude Helped a Hacker Find a Way to Issue Tickets to Almost Every US Music Festival
A researcher found that using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7, he could break into the website of Front Gate—used by every festival from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo—and freely issue any ticket he chose.
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A security researcher used an AI tool called Claude Opus 4.7 to discover a vulnerability in a ticketing website used by nearly every major US music festival. By exploiting a SQL injection flaw with help from the AI, the researcher was able to gain administrator access and issue free tickets of any value to any event. The incident demonstrates how AI tools can potentially be used to identify and exploit security vulnerabilities across many internet systems, though the researcher reported the flaw responsibly and the ticketing company patched it within 24 hours.
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