Ariana Grande wins legal battle to reveal identities of hackers who tried to sell unreleased music on dark web for “significant sums of money”

Ariana Grande has won a legal battle, seeking to reveal identities of the hackers who tried to sell unreleased music of hers on dark web for “significant sums of money”. READ MORE: Ariana Grande live in London: brilliant business-as-usual before the singer takes a break from the spotlight The ruling was made by Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark H. Epstein on Wednesday (August 19), who granted the pop star the power of a fast-track subpoena, which she argued was necessary to identify those who hacked into her files and sold unreleased music, photos, and videos of hers on the “dark web”. The move means that Grande does not have to comply with a waiting period tied to providing notice to the defendants in her invasion of privacy lawsuit, as she has no way of tracking down the hackers involved or identifying them for the court. Her lawsuit was first filed on July 27, and claimed that people broke into the personal online accounts belonging to her, her photographers, and her producers, and stole the information using stolen login credentials and phishing schemes. Stolen material included footage from recording sessions, demos, and unreleased masters, which were then sold on t...