90s hacker hacks Shanghai Disneyland ticket: buys 1 cent and earns 500,000 in a week

Data officially released by the Walt Disney Company show that Shanghai Disneyland has received more than 7 million visitors since its opening in June last year, and its popularity continues to soar.

So, some people started to have crooked ideas about tickets.

Recently, two hackers born in the 1990s broke into the network system of a travel agency in Hangzhou, changed the price of Shanghai Disneyland tickets from 375 yuan to 1 cent, and bought more than 2,700 tickets and sold them to ticket scalpers, making an illegal profit of more than 500,000 yuan.

According to the report, Xiao Huang, a 20-year-old young man from Fujian, saw news last year that Shanghai Disneyland had cooperated with 30 travel agencies and allowed the official websites of the 30 travel agencies to sell Disney tickets.

Out of curiosity, Xiao Huang tried to use hacking software to change the ticket price to 0.01 yuan, but he was able to successfully issue the ticket. In this way, Xiao Huang successfully stole the Shanghai Disneyland ticket, which originally cost 375 yuan, at a price of 1 cent.

After knowing this system loophole, Xiao Huang seemed to see hope of getting rich, but he was still troubled by the limit on the number of tickets purchased by Disney, that is, each ID card can only buy three tickets per day.

So Xiao Huang found scalper A and netizen Xiao Li, and the three of them worked well together. Xiao Huang provided his ID information, and Xiao Li used hacking software to steal the tickets and fed them back to Xiao Huang, who then resold the tickets to scalper A and paid Xiao Li a reward.

In the end, within just one week, Xiao Huang's account received more than 500,000 yuan in compensation from scalper A, and Xiao Li also took this opportunity to earn more than 100,000 yuan.

However, the "good times" did not last long. Following the travel agency's report, the public security authorities, through investigations and data analysis, finally identified the hackers behind the scenes, "Xiao Huang" and "Xiao Li". Recently, the Hangzhou Shangcheng District People's Procuratorate approved the arrest of Xiao Huang and Xiao Li for theft. Recently, scalper A has been arrested by the public security authorities.

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