Pierluigi Paganini
April 27, 2016
Hundreds of Spotify account credentials appeared online on the website Pastebin, the information includes emails, usernames, passwords, account type and other details.
The popular Swedish streaming service denied any data breach and confirmed that its systems weren’t compromised by hackers. Spotify confirmed that it “has not been hacked” and its “user records are secure.”
“Spotify has not been hacked and our user records are secure. We monitor Pastebin and other sites regularly. When we find Spotify credentials, we first verify that they are authentic, and if they are, we immediately notify affected users to change their passwords.” states Spotify.
According to the Techcrunch media agency, the Spotify security team proactively resets hacked passwords, a number of users are also reporting problems with their accounts.
Techcrunch reached out random users in the list confirming we’ve confirmed that these users’ Spotify accounts were compromised.
It is not clear if the account details were stolen by Spotify or result from other breaches.
The Pastebin post also includes other information on the uses (e.g. account type [family, premium], subscription auto-renews, country).
This isn’t the first time that Spotify suffers a security incident, in May 2014 it investigated unauthorized access to its systems and internal company data.
We cannot exclude that data comes from previous incidents, but victims reached by Techcrunch told it otherwise.
“So far, over a half-dozen have responded, confirming that they did experience a Spotify account breach recently. They became aware of the breach in a number of ways – for example, one said he found songs added to his saved songs list that he hadn’t added. Another also found his account had been used by an unknown third party.” continues Techcrunch.
Some users reported problems while accessing the platform, other have found that their account email had been changed to a new email address not belonging to them.
As usually happens in these cases, it is strongly suggested to change passwords.
Stay tuned.
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(Security Affairs – Spotify, data breach)
