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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Burning Man queue jumping hackers caught out

The online queuing system for the 40,000 tickets to the Burning Man festival was hacked by 200 people accessing a ‘technical backdoor’ to virtually queue jump, according to Computer World.
An official statement on the Burning Man blog revealed that around 200 people managed to use a ‘technical backdoor’ to the ticket sale, cutting-in to the front of the virtual line. “The good news (for us, not them) is that we can track them down, and we’re going to cancel their orders,” the blog post reads, adding that the 200 confiscated tickets will be part of a planned last-minute sale in August. “Of course, steps are being taken to prevent this from happening again in future sales,” the post added.


Burning Man queue jumping hackers caught out

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