Seven Arrests Made in $1.6 Million StubHub Cyberfraud Case

Police have arrested seven people on charges they were tied to an international ring that defrauded eBay’s StubHub online ticketing service of some $1.6 million, the latest in a string of high-profile cyber crime busts in recent months.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced the arrests on Wednesday. They include a Russian national who was detained while vacationing in Spain, along with three others arrested in London, two in the United States and one in Canada.

They were charged with involvement in a cyber crime ring that used stolen credit card numbers to purchase thousands of tickets to events, including concerts of Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z as well as games for sports teams including the Boston Red Sox and New York Giants, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday.

The charges include money laundering, possession of stolen property and identity theft.

StubHub’s head of global communications, Glenn Lehrman, told Reuters his firm has been working with law enforcement around the world for the last year on the case.

(Additional reporting by Mica Rosenberg and Joseph Ax; Writing by Jim Finkle; Editing by Lisa Shumaker, Christopher Cushing and James Dalgleish)

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

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