'Huge possibility' Oasis tickets are being bought by bots in high numbers

dailyrecord.co.uk:

IT experts say there is a “huge possibility” that high numbers of Oasis tickets a re being purchased by computer bots at once.

Ticket re-sellers often use automated software to buy more tickets for events than they are allowed, only to sell them on at higher prices.

Oasis fans also reported being hit with website outage issues while trying to book shows on Saturday. Jake Moore, global cybersecurity adviser at software security firm Eset said some groups have the right software and knowledge to manipulate ticket websites, and even use bots to “swoop in and purchase high numbers of tickets at once”.

He told the PA news agency: “Being the next series of concerts since the demand for Taylor Swift tickets, I would suggest there would be a huge possibility of bots being used to swoop in.” Many people used social media to say that they had been suspended from the Ticketmaster website as they were assumed to be a bot.