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Thanks. Mostly just got curious about how extensive the issues might be. Once I realized TechCrunch had actually tried the accounts and Ticketmaster said they were all real accounts, then it got a bit more serious. (italic emphasis mine below)

> TechCrunch on Friday obtained a portion of the allegedly stolen data containing thousands of records, including email addresses. This included several internal Ticketmaster email addresses used for testing, which are not public but appear as real Ticketmaster accounts. TechCrunch verified on Friday that the records we checked belong to Ticketmaster customers.

> TechCrunch checked the validity of these accounts by running the internal email addresses through Ticketmaster’s sign-up form. All of the accounts came back as real. (Ticketmaster displays an error if someone enters an email address that is already a real Ticketmaster account.)

In addition to the accounts working, which in itself is pretty bad. There's also the internal test accounts.