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Rolling Stone editor-in-chief Noah Shachtman appears at a media event hosted by the U.S. Army in 2018. (Photo courtesy U.S. Army, public domain; Graphic by The Desk)

Madison Square Garden sues Wired over clickbait article based on hacked customer data

The parent company of New York City’s famed entertainment venue Madison Square Garden is suing technology publication Wired and three of its journalists over a news article that misrepresented thousands of customer records that were stolen by hackers. In a court filing on Thursday, Madison Square Garden Entertainment Company charged Wired’s parent company Conde Nast and three journalists — senior reporter Maddy Varner and editors Noah Shachtman and Katie Drummond — used thousands of stolen customer records for a news story that wrongfully implied the company targeted gay and lesbian celebrities and customers. The reporting was based on more than 40,000 customer records that hackers leaked on the Internet after attempting to extort Madison Square Garden, the company said. While the records did include gay and lesbian labels attributed to some customers, Madison Square Garden said those records were intended … Read more

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