Post by Andrew Bogle

(Ugh...) Madison Square Garden Kept a List of Gay Celebrities An MSG database tracked and categorized hundreds of celebs, famous Knicks superfans, and even some of Taylor Swift’s wedding guests. Labels included “LGBTQIA,” “DO NOT HOST,” and low to high “risk.” Within Dolan’s organization, however, some have a different view of Fat Joe. An internal Madison Square Garden database of VIPs labels Joe a “medium risk,” one of roughly 400 celebrities given a risk score. Many of those celebs are courtside fixtures at Knicks games: Edie Falco, Mark Ronson, John Turturro, and Tracy Morgan, to name a few. That makes the 400-ish entries unusual. The vast majority of the 39,539 entries in the so-called “talent” database—which tracks boldfaced names in business, technology, politics, media, and sports, along with their guests—are not marked with a risk score at all. The database is part of a much larger trove of documents published last month by ShinyHunters, a criminal hacker collective. The database doesn’t provide an explicit explanation for Fat Joe’s “medium risk” designation. But as WIRED has previously documented, MSG security keeps close tabs on what is said online about Dolan and the Garden’s management. A source with knowledge of the matter tells WIRED that Garden security has performed social media sweeps for prominent people looking for complimentary tickets to games. If you’re a celebrity and you’re marked with a risk score—even as a low risk—it means “you’ve done something in the publicity world, the social media world, that has caught the attention of the wrong people,” the source continues. Physical security threats—potential harms to people or property—are documented in a separate database, the source says. Anna Wintour, Condé Nast’s chief content officer and global editorial director of Vogue, always dresses impeccably when attending Knicks games and has no record of disparaging Dolan. She’s labeled as “medium risk.” Also in the hacker collective’s data dump is a second, far larger database. It contains over 10.5 million entries peppered with people’s personal information, which appears to be pulled from the Garden’s Salesforce customer management system. Some entries were added as far back as 2012, and others were edited as recently as June 6. In this database are 9,782,361 unique emails, 2,820,221 unique phone numbers, and 2,956 entries that include birth dates. https://lnkd.in/gpKGwTiy