Central Tickets data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the July 2024 breach of Central Tickets. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Central Tickets data breach exposed 722,860 accounts from centraltickets.co.uk in July 2024. The data taken includes passwords, purchases, names and email addresses and 3 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 30 Sep 2024, 3 months later. It is the 451st largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Central Tickets’s breach included 7 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Passwords | Criminals try leaked passwords on email, banking and shopping sites, because people reuse them. |
| Purchases | Shows what you buy, which makes fake order and refund scams convincing. |
| Names | Makes scam messages personal enough to believe. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Phone numbers | Expect scam texts and calls, and a higher risk of someone moving your number to their SIM. |
| Device information | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
| IP addresses | Roughly where you were when you used the service. |
What to do
- Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, Central Tickets among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Central Tickets password.If the account still exists, sign in at Central Tickets (centraltickets.co.uk) and change it.
- Change it anywhere you used the same one.Start with your email, then banking and shopping. Leaked passwords are tried on other sites automatically, within days.
- Use a password manager and two-step sign-in.A different password for every site means one breach can’t open the rest. Two-step sign-in stops a leaked password working on its own.
- Distrust messages that mention Central Tickets.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
- Put a PIN on your phone account.Ask your mobile provider for a port-out PIN, so no one can move your number to their SIM.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 3 months later.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- LuLu, July 2024, 2.8 million accounts
- RentoMojo, April 2023, 2.2 million accounts
- Fanpass, April 2022, 112,251 accounts
- Imavex, August 2021, 878,209 accounts
- Bonobos, August 2020, 2.8 million accounts
- Baydöner, March 2026, 1.3 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Central Tickets”, Have I Been Pwned, added 30 Sep 2024. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- centraltickets.co.uk, Central Tickets’s website