The exposed database belonged to a 3rd party that was using it to store Spotify login credentials.

'In this case, the incident didn't originate from Spotify. In a report by We Live Security on November 24, it is believed that up to 350,000 Spotify accounts have been hacked, with several sensitive information such as users' email addresses, usernames, and passwords exposed. Read More: Spotify Wrapped 2020 Stats: View Your Top Streamed Songs-Learn How! 300,000 to 350,000 Accounts Hacked

It is quite unclear how the hacking and editing of the artist pages took place, but it is quite a blow to Spotify's security, especially as they have been having issues in the past few weeks. Spotify did not comment about the apparent attack. The hacker also used the moment to promote his Snapchat account, along with the messages 'Trump 2020' and 'Best of all shout out to my queen Taylor Swift.'īy now, the company has reversed the changes made by the hacker, so everything should be back to normal if you check the said pages now, but it's not until some Spotify users were able to get screenshots of the hacking and uploaded them on Twitter.

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