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Spotify denies that it has been hacked
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 26 April 2016
Spotify has denied that it has been hacked, after user data from the streaming service was seemingly published online. However, TechCrunch reports that a number of those users listed in the supposed leak have had their accounts breached recently.
The data, which has since been removed from Pastebin, where it appeared at the weekend, apparently listed details of hundreds of Spotify accounts, including email addresses, usernames, renewal dates and account type.
In a statement, Spotify denied any breach, saying: “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”.
However, TechCrunch says that when it contacted a random sample of users listed in the Pastebin document, some had noticed unusual activity on their Spotify accounts recently. Meanwhile others reported that accounts on other websites had been compromised, as they had used the same username and password across multiple sites.
Other purported hacks of information from Spotify accounts have appeared on Pastebin in recent weeks, though with smaller amounts of data, none of which have been verified as legitimate breaches.
