Burning Man Ticket Hack

Now organizers are trying to figure out how it happened, and promising to cancel the culprits’ tickets.

They figured out there was a problem when passes went on sale last week. Some 80,000 people tried to buy $390 tickets to the massive, free-for-all festival in a remote dry lake bed in the Black Rock Desert in Northern Nevada in late August.

But only the first 20,000 people who clicked were guaranteed a pair of tickets. About three-quarters of would-be ticket buyers were turned away. Somehow, 200 people cheated and got to the front of the cyber line.

Burning Man organizers said they are taking steps to prevent a future hack.