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There was a data breach at the company which bought Taylor Swift’s master recordings

As Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce were getting married at Madison Square Garden last week, hackers were at work burrowing into the cyber infrastructure of Shamrock Holdings Ltd. This is the Disney-owned country that bought Taylor Swift’s master recordings back in 2020.

No one knows exactly how big and damaging the hack was, but Tay-Tay has nothing to be worried about because she was able to acquire her masters in 2023, so Shamrock Holdings is no longer owns them.

The timing is…suspicious, though. Might The Gentlemen, the name of the hacker outfit, have some Swifties within their ranks? Could this been a wedding preseent?

Alan Cross

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