Ticketek gives addresses to spammers

AUSSIE ticket site Ticketek has emailed tens of thousands of customer email addresses to spammers by accident.

An email sent to customers advertising an offer for The Dandy Warhols popular beat combo included a dump of its email database. This of course would have ended up in the greedy paws of spammers, particularly those who like the Dandy Warhols.

Ticketek should have smelt a rat when they sent the email out as it was something like 110 pages long. We would have thought this would have slowed its email server for bit.

Aussie privacy watchdog Karen Curtis, said her office has unleashed her hounds and is having a quiet word with Ticketek.

Since Curtis has not had a complaint from anyone yet, officially she can't penalise or compel Ticketek to do anything .

Ticketek said that humans were responsible for the error and as soon as there were less of them on the planet there would be a lot less human error. He didn't say who paid the humans who made the error or if they might be wee bit responsible.

He said only "0.01 per cent" of its database was exposed. Ticketek was in the process of contacting customers to apologise. µ

L'Inq
Sydney Morning Herald