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Spotify user data ends up online, but company says it wasn't hacked

posted onApril 26, 2016
by l33tdawg

You may want to change your Spotify password now.

A list of hundreds of Spotify usernames, passwords, account types, and other details showed up on Pastebin.com, a text-sharing site, on April 23.

The data is specific to Spotify, and TechCrunch verified that it could, in fact, log into a few of the compromised accounts. While the first possible explanation that came to our minds was "hack", Spotify denied such a data breach occurred.

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