Coachella Website Hacked, User Data Stolen

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Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has announced that information about users registered on its website (a process required to purchase tickets for the festival) has been digitally compromised. The below statement, emailed to account holders, was forwarded to Pitchfork. A representative for AEG, the company behind Coachella, confirmed that the statement is official. “We recently discovered that unauthorized third parties illegally gained access to the usernames, first and last names, shipping addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth individuals provided to Coachella,” an email…