Spotify Data Scraping Explained: Why It's Not A Hack

Spotify confirms it was not hacked after reports of a large data scrape. Here's what was accessed, what wasn't, and what it means for users.

Spotify 86 million files looted and do hackers look to leak 300TB data online? Here's complete truth, hack details and platform statement

Spotify 86 million files looted and do hackers look to leak 300TB data online? A piracy group claims it scraped most Spotify ...

A 300TB pirate archive claims to contain nearly every song ever streamed on Spotify

Anna's Archive, a shadow library search engine, recently scraped Spotify to create a pirate archive containing 86 million songs and metadata for 256 million tracks.
Forbes

Spotify Accused Of Ignoring ‘Billions’ Of Fraudulent Drake Streams—What We Know About Bot Streams

A federal lawsuit filed Sunday in California federal court accuses Spotify of failing to prevent streaming fraud, including by allowing “billions” of bot-generated streams that allegedly boosted ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Drake Accused of Earning Billions of Fraudulent Streams in Class Action Suit Against Spotify

The suit claims the allegedly fraudulent Drake streams alone have cost other artists hundreds of millions of dollars. By Ethan Millman Music Editor A new class action lawsuit against Spotify ...
AOL

Is Spotify down? Company reports service back online, says issue was not a 'security hack'

Music streaming platform Spotify said it has resolved an outage affecting a large number of users on April 16. "Spotify experienced an outage today beginning around 6:20 am EDT. As of 11:45 am ...