Defrauding and Hacking Ticketmaster

This really a hack?

"To defeat the Online Ticket Vendors' technologies, the defendants worked with computer programmers in Bulgaria to establish a nationwide network of computers that impersonated individual visitors to the Online Ticket Vendors' websites, the indictment alleges.  The network – described as the "CAPTCHA Bots" in the indictment – gave Wiseguys the ability to flood the Online Ticket Vendors' computers at the exact moment that event tickets went on sale."

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