noah | November 26, 2007 2:24 am

Hey, remember when the leak spoofers at MediaDefender had their e-mail broken into a few months back? Well, the finance department at parent company ArtistDirect sure does: The company has to pay out $600,000 in credits to “clients affected by the leak,” not to mention $225,000 in legal and administrative costs. And, of course, the humiliation suffered by the knowledge that employee outings involved seeing Chris Kattan perform. [Billboard]