Ticketmaster blames scammers for users’ tickets disappearing

Ticketmaster is telling fans who claim their concert tickets disappeared from their accounts, costing them thousands of dollars, that they were victims of hackers.”What we’re seeing is scammers accessing a fan’s email account,” a Ticketmaster spokesperson told USA TODAY on Tuesday.Many ticketholders have spoken to outlets about their experience, including Blaine Heck who told MarketWatch and the Daily Mail that she had a pair of $3,500 Taylor Swift tickets stolen from her account. Similarly, Savannah Van Skyhawk in Indiana lost her tickets to see the “Shake it Off” singer in concert even after contacting Ticketmaster multiple times, WTHR reported.”We paid about $300 per ticket, and I’ve seen resale value of between like four or five grand per ticket. So we weren’t going to be able to afford another ticket if we didn’t get these ones back,” Van Skyhawk told the TV station. “Ticketmaster) would just tell me like, ‘We’d call you in three to five days.’ So, I’d wait three to five…