Tuesday 12 November 2019, Poradnik bezpieczeństwa

Spotify data leak

Lost24

There has been a large data leak from the database of subscribers of Spotify streaming service. Spotify platform is used by over 200 million users, of which 100 million are subscribed to the paid version.


The leak concerns 25,000 emails and passwords, there are at least 326 Polish accounts in the publicly available data package.
Anyone with access to the above data could in to the listed users accounts. Therefore, the CERT Polska team has decided to directly notify all persons from Poland whose data was listed in the leak. Each user received a leak notification, with a recommendation to change their password.


At present, it is not known who is responsible for the data leak and how the data of Spotify users was intercepted.