TAIT, one of the world's leading providers of live event and concert solutions, has revealed that it was the subject of a hacking attack and the data breach led to the exposure of personal and financial information stored on its server and in the email accounts of some of its employees.
The TAIT group of companies (Brilliant, Kinesys, Production Glue, Stage Technologies, TAIT UK and TAIT Navigator) employs over 900 people in 14 countries around the world and has been a solution provider in more than 30 countries.
TAIT “worked on 17 of the top 20 highest-selling tours of all time” [1] and its client list includes NASA, Disney, Universal, Nike, Metallica, U2, Microsoft, MTV, The Olympics, Eurovision, The Rolling Stones, AC/DC and many more.
The data breach was discovered on April 6, 2020, when TAIT noticed that an unauthorized party had gained access to one of the company and the email accounts of several TAIT employees.
TAIT immediately disabled its servers and email systems after discovering the incident and hired a cybersecurity firm to help investigate the breach.
The following investigation revealed that the attackers initially breached TAIT's servers almost two months earlier, on February 16, 2020.
“TAIT has addressed the security issues arising from this incident, taking measures such as resetting login credentials for TAIT’s servers and email system,” the company said in a data breach notification.
“In addition, TAIT has conducted a review of its cybersecurity defenses and protocols and has implemented additional security techniques, such as adding multi-factor authentication and deploying endpoint monitoring systems.”
Financial and personal information has been exposed
After examining the contents of the compromised email accounts and server, TAIT determined that the threat actor gained access to “names, addresses, email addresses, dates of birth, social security numbers, and financial account numbers.”
Although the company does not know what has happened to the exposed information, it urges affected individuals to be careful.
TAIT will also offer free credit monitoring to individuals who may be affected if they call the dedicated call center at 855-917-3540 to register.
“TAIT takes data security very seriously and understands the importance of protecting the information it holds,” said TAIT CEO Adam Davis.
“We are working to address this issue and regret any inconvenience it may cause to our valued employees, customers, and vendors.”
Further details on the number of people affected by the breach, and whether both customers and employees were affected, have not been released.
