Spotify music catalogue leaked and audio files scraped en masse
Spotify's music catalogue was leaked through hacking and made public. The attackers scraped the music library and collected 86 million audio files. Spotify said piracy activists had hacked its music catalogue.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Spotify
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- 86 million audio files collected
- Cause / method
- Hacking and scraping of the music library
- Location
- Sweden
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Timeline
- Spotify disclosed the hacking of its music catalogue, and the collection of 86 million audio files was reported.
- The publication of the leaked music catalogue was reported.
4 related reports
- Spotify is having a very bad, no good really rotten day. Someone hacked its entire music library.
- Spotify Says Piracy Activists Hacked Its Music Catalogue
- Hackers Scrape Spotify's Entire Library, Collect 86M Audio Files
- Spotify faces chaos after massive music catalogue leak goes public after getting hacked
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