Lady Gaga Replacing Beyoncé At Coachella News Overshadows Site Hack, Which Includes Festival Patron Phone Numbers, Addresses

Coachella was busy promoting Lady Gaga as Beyoncé's replacement Tuesday but also emailed festival patrons who have accounts on its website that some of their personal information has been compromised.

Coachella organizer Goldenvoice confirmed in an email to Coachella website users that their data was accessed by hackers in a breach. Affected data included account names, user first and last names, shipping addresses, email addresses, phone numbers and date of birth information. According to Goldenvoice, billing information and passwords were not accessed in the hack.

In its email, Coachella apologized to members for the hack and warned them to be aware of possible phone or email phishing attempts that could data accessed in the breach. Coachella also encouraged users to change passwords if they were shared with other accounts. As Billboard notes, Coachella.com accounts are used for tasks like wristband activation and lineup browsing, while billing and purchasing info are done through a separate account.

"We have taken measures to block further unauthorized access, and reported the matter to the appropriate authorities for further investigation," Coachella said. "We regret any inconvenience this incident may have caused."

While secure user data like billing information wasn't taken in the hack, Coachella has ample company with other businesses who were affected by major breaches in the past few years. Goldenvoice didn't confirm the number of users affected by the breach in its email, but according to Motherboard, a data trader is selling user account information for 360,000 users from Coachella's website.

Elsewhere, Yahoo! disclosed that an estimated 1.5 billion users were affected by two separate data hacks. Last year, business chat developer Slack was affected by a user database breach that affected around 500,000 users.

Tuesday's news came as the company was announcing Beyoncé's replacement, Lady Gaga. Following well-received Super Bowl halftime performance, Gaga will have the task of replacing Queen Bey. Beyoncé had to drop out of her Coachella headlining spot due to her pregnancy.