Officials in Queens, New York, arrest two individuals for exploiting a backdoor at a StubHub contractor to intercept and re-sell almost 1,000 tickets to popular events.

The Queens District Attorney’s Office charged Tyrone Rose and Shamara Simmons for their involvement in an alleged scheme in which they exploited a loophole through an offshore ticket vendor for StubHub. According to the prosecutors, they intercepted already-sold ticket URLs by accessing the company’s network and resold them.

The perpetrators allegedly used backdoor access to StubHub's platform to redirect hundreds of tickets to concerts by Taylor Swift and more

Nearly 1,000 tickets to Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour were allegedly stolen and resold for $635,000 in a sophisticated hacking scheme, according to New York prosecutors.