Spotify privacy settings expose Palmer Luckey's music tastes
Spotify's privacy settings exposed information about the music Palmer Luckey listens to. The timing and extent of the exposure and the follow-up response have not been confirmed.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Spotify
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Information on Palmer Luckey's music tastes
- Cause / method
- Spotify's privacy settings
- Location
- United States
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Timeline
- It emerged that Spotify's privacy settings had exposed information on Palmer Luckey's music tastes.
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