Claude AI Helped Researcher Issue Free Tickets to Nearly Every US Music Festival

A security researcher discovered that using Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 AI, he could hack into Front Gate — the ticketing platform used by Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo and nearly every major US music festival — and freely issue any ticket he chose. The exploit exposes a serious security vulnerability affecting a large portion of the US live music ticketing infrastructure. The finding raises urgent questions about AI-assisted hacking and platform security.

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