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.Īnother also found his account had been used by an unknown third party. So far, over a half-dozen have responded, confirming that they did experience a Spotify account breach recently. And only one of the accounts we tried actually permitted a log in, which also left room for doubt about the recency of this particular incident.īut the victims we reached out to told us otherwise. It could have been that a list of previously compromised accounts is still circulating. Spotify has dealt with security incidents in the past, so one can’t immediately assume that a list of emails like this is related to a new data breach.
The list of accounts is not limited to the U.S., but includes a number of users from all over the world. family, premium), when the subscription auto-renews, and the country where the account was created. In addition to the email and login information, the Pastebin post also details the type of account (e.g. It’s unclear, then, where these particular account details were acquired, given that they are specific to Spotify, rather than a set of generic credentials that just happen to work on Spotify. However, Spotify says that it “has not been hacked” and its “user records are secure.” After reaching out to a random sampling of the victims via email, we’ve confirmed that these users’ Spotify accounts were compromised only days ago. Note: If you claim or upload your podcast with the wrong Spotify account and want to change which account has access to Spotify for Podcasters, the easiest thing to do is log into the correct Spotify account, then claim access again following the steps above.A list containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials – including emails, usernames, passwords, account type and other details – has popped up on the website Pastebin, in what appears to be a possible security breach. If you run into trouble granting or removing access to other email address reach out to us with the following information: Each team member needs their own Spotify account and access to the email address in the RSS feed before getting access to the podcast.
Multiple team members can get access using the steps above to view stats for the same podcast. Add podcast info like the category, language, and country.Copy the 8-digit code from that email and paste in the submit form. We’ll send a verification email to the address in your RSS feed.Paste in the link to your podcast's RSS feed.Open the side menu by clicking the three dots in the top-left.To get access, you need to log in with your Spotify account, or choose SIGN UP to create one.
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