May 28, 2014
Spotify is an application available for Android and iOS OSs, the company also provides a desktop version and has more than 40 million active users. Spotify offers both a free service and allows paid subscription for more that 10 million users.
The company revealed a hacker had violated its systems accessing to the internal company data, according its early investigation only one account has been accessed in the data breach and there are no risks for tis financial information, payment details or password. The single user has been already contacted.
“Our evidence shows that only one Spotify user’s data has been accessed and this did not include any password, financial, or payment information,” added Spotify.
Spotify informed the Android app users that in the coming days it will logout them and will ask them to log-in again by re-entering their username and password.
Spotify hasn’t provided further details on the attack, it is still unknown how the attackers have compromise the database,there is the concrete possibility that they exploited a flaw in the Android app, because the company hasn’t still warned its iOS and Windows Phone users.
The company has announced an application update this week, probably to fix the flaw exploited by hackers.
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(Security Affairs – Spotify, Hacking)
