Ticketmaster acknowledged in May that hackers stole 560 million customers’ data for ransom. In a a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing on May 20th, the company confirmed unauthorized activity. Ticketmaster’s parent company, Live Nation Entertainment, said it had “identified unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database environment.”

On April 2, 2024, the California Privacy Protection Agency issued its first Enforcement Advisory 2024-01, reminding businesses that data minimization is a foundational principle of the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA).