Spotify users locked out after account takeovers
Spotify users had their accounts taken over and were unable to access them. The hijackers followed fake bands and played random songs.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- Spotify
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Takeover of some users' accounts and loss of account access
- Cause / method
- Takeover of user accounts
- Location
- Other countries
Timeline
- It came to light that Spotify account takeovers had locked users out, with hijackers following fake bands and playing random songs.
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