Quote Originally Posted by Chicken Balti Pie View Post
If they have not encrypted or hashed the credit card numbers, I'd be VERY surprised. That will come with massive fines that will more than likely end Ticketmaster. It is more likely they have your name and address (that's on the electoral roll anyway) and part of your credit card number. They won't be stealing your card, but you're more at risk of scammers attempting something in the future, but with a data set of half a billion ( or around 8% of the entire world population) I think you'll be fine
Of course the credit card numbers should be encrypted, but then why not encrypt the whole database which clearly they haven't?