VERIFY received questions about whether recent Ticketmaster emails about a security breach are legit. They are.

Ticketmaster is warning millions of customers across the country, including hundreds in Rhode Island, that their data may have been compromised during a security breach last month.

Ticketmaster is notifying customers about a “data security incident” that may have leaked their personal information.

The email landed with a thud in the family account earlier this week. Ticketmaster, the multi-billion dollar California-based ticket sales and distribution company, was advising us — as well as hundreds of millions of fellow subscribers around the world — of a severe data breach after an “unauthorized third party” obtained information from a cloud database at some point between April 2 and May 18.