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StubHub's head of global communications, Glenn
Lehrman, told Reuters late on Tuesday that his firm has been
working with law enforcement around the world for the last year
on the case.
Lehrman said he could not say how much money was involved or how
many people were being charged ahead of announcements planned by
authorities in several countries on Wednesday.
Fraudulent charges were posted after hackers obtained user
credentials by hacking into other sites, then used them to log
in StubHub, he said.
"We did not have anyone who hacked into our system," Lehrman
said.
He said the schemes involved a "pretty intense network of cyber
fraudsters working in concert with each other."
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance will announce details
about the arrests along with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
the City of London Police and the U.S. Secret Service, according
to a release from Vance's office on Tuesday.
A spokeswoman for the District Attorney's office declined to
elaborate.
(Additional reporting by Mica Rosenberg and Joseph Ax in NEW
YORK; Editing by Lisa Shumaker and Christopher Cushing)
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