Madison Square Garden Company

Profile narrative

Madison Square Garden is identified in the provided material under the names Madison Square Garden and Madison Square Garden Company. It is an entertainment-related organisation based in the United States. The material associates it with the Madison Square Garden venue and with affiliated theaters. Its known customer-facing activities include on-site merchandise, food, and beverage transactions at entertainment venues. The material distinguishes those venue transactions from online sales, box office purchases, and Ticketmaster transactions, which were not part of the payment-card exposure described. The organisation’s exact business model is not fully described in the provided material, but the available facts place it in the context of live entertainment venue operations and patron services.

The organisation’s scale is only partly described. The material does not state employee numbers, revenue, venue capacity, or total customer counts. It does identify the United States as the headquarters location and indicates a domestic operating context. The available incident summaries show that Madison Square Garden has had multiple cybersecurity exposures affecting different parts of its technology and payment environment. In one incident, the company notified customers that payment card data from on-site merchandise, food, and beverage vendors may have been compromised over an extended period. That incident was limited to magnetic-stripe payment card information and did not include online sales, box office purchases, or Ticketmaster transactions.

In a later incident, Madison Square Garden confirmed a data breach involving an Oracle E-Business Suite instance hosted by a third-party vendor. The breach was linked to a cybercrime campaign exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities, and attackers associated with the Cl0p ransomware group stole more than 210 gigabytes of archive files. The organisation did not initially respond to inquiries but later acknowledged the incident, began notifying affected individuals, and reported eleven Maine residents as affected to that state’s Attorney General. The third-party vendor’s investigation found that personal information, including names and Social Security numbers, had been taken. The total number of impacted individuals remained unclear in the provided material.

These incidents indicate that the organisation’s distinguishing attributes in the provided material include operation of venue-related payment systems, reliance on third-party hosted business systems, and exposure to risks affecting customer and patron data. The material does not identify any regulatory role for Madison Square Garden. It also does not state ownership, parent, or subsidiary relationships. Based only on the provided information, the organisation is best described as a United States-based entertainment venue entity with affiliated theater operations and documented customer-data security incidents affecting on-site and third-party hosted systems.

Incidents

2 incidents linked to this organisation.