{"id":8311,"date":"2025-10-24T22:10:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T22:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/taylor-swift-eras-tour-ticket-hacker-pleads-guilty-to-reselling-scheme\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T22:10:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T22:10:23","slug":"taylor-swift-eras-tour-ticket-hacker-pleads-guilty-to-reselling-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/taylor-swift-eras-tour-ticket-hacker-pleads-guilty-to-reselling-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift Eras Tour Ticket Hacker Pleads Guilty to Reselling Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n\tA Jamaican man who allegedly stole and resold more 900 tickets to Taylor Swift\u2018s Eras Tour has pleaded guilty to a New York criminal charge.<\/p>\n

\n\tTyrone Rose, 20, was arrested in March over allegations that he used backdoor access as an employee of a StubHub contractor to steal the pricey tickets, before forwarding them to a Queens-based accomplice who resold them for more than $635,000 in illegal profit.<\/p>\n

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\n\tAt a court hearing Thursday (Oct. 23), Rose pleaded guilty to a single count of grand larceny in the second degree over the alleged scalping scheme, while a sentencing hearing on that charge was set for January. Rose could face up to 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe guilty plea was likely part of a deal under which prosecutors could recommend less than the maximum. Rose was also charged with five additional counts, including computer tampering, money laundering and conspiracy, which were not included in Thursday\u2019s guilty plea.<\/p>\n

\n\tSwift\u2019s Eras Tour wrapped up last year with a record-breaking haul of more than $2 billion in face-value ticket sales over a two-year run that featured 149 stops in 51 cities across 21 countries. Massive demand for tickets led to a chaotic presale in November 2022, sparking calls for ticketing reform; it also created an infamously pricey secondary market, with even basic seats selling for thousands.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Eras Tour has also been big business in the courtroom. Swift fans filed class actions against Ticketmaster over the presale, and the Federal Trade Commission is suing a ticket broker for allegedly using bots to buy tickets that it resold for more than $1 million in profit. Just this month, an angry Swiftie sued StubHub for giving her \u201cinferior\u201d seats after she dropped $14,000 on Eras tickets.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn March, Queens prosecutors charged Rose with stealing more than 900 Eras tickets while working at a StubHub contractor in Jamaica called Sutherland. He allegedly abused his position to access a restricted area of StubHub\u2019s network that houses URLs for event tickets that have already been sold, then re-directed them to New York-based co-conspirators who resold them for a windfall.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThese defendants tried to use the popularity of Taylor Swift\u2019s concert tour and other high-profile events to profit at the [expense] of others,\u201d Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz<\/strong> said at the time. \u201cThey allegedly exploited a loophole through an offshore ticket vendor to steal tickets to the biggest concert tour of the last decade and then resold those seats for an extraordinary profit.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tStubHub was not accused of any wrongdoing. When Rose was arrested, the company said it had promptly reported the scheme to both Sutherland and to law enforcement when uncovered, and had replaced or refunded all affected orders. Sutherland was also not accused of any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

\n\tBoth an attorney for Rose and a spokesperson for the Queens DA did not return requests for comment on the guilty plea on Friday (Oct. 24).<\/p>\n

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