On August 31st, users reported receiving email notifications that their passwords had been forcibly reset. Even as Spotify continues to attract paying subscribers - the count as of August hovered around thirty-nine million such users - a cloud of uncertainty hovers around the question of the corporation’s long-term viability. No use adding to these public relations woes - which was why reports of a possible data breach proved, surprisingly, to be a refreshing bit of news for Spotify. Recording artists, dissatisfied with their cut of the proceeds, face possible retaliation if they make it publicly known - a nasty public profile for a company to cut against musicians with rabidly loyal fan bases. Record megalabels, reluctant to conclude long-term agreements with Spotify for access to their catalogues, nevertheless command over half of the company’s revenues via royalty payments - the major contributor to Spotify’s continual operating loss.
The Swedish music streaming service, which is widely expected to go public late next year, is already locked in enough significant conflicts to occupy most of Ek’s waking hours.Īpple, besides choking off Spotify updates via the App Store, increasingly poses a competitive threat with its well-funded Music division. My password is randomly generated and long so makes me wonder what happened there.For Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, the goal for the rest of 2016 should be simple: don’t rock the boat. Unexpected email from Spotify due to some “suspicious activity”. This is the third time Spotify has sent me an email about “suspicious activity” and I can only hope that whoever’s trying to get into my account changed the card information because i can’t afford this months lol Recently security breaches include Facebook, which “unintentionally uploaded” 1.5 million users’ email addresses without their consent, and Singapore’s Health Sciences Authority, which compromised the personal information of 808,000 blood donors that somehow wound up on the Internet.
Spotify Data Finds Gen Z Can't Get Enough of Their Parents' Faves, From Joan Jett to Grateful DeadĪs TechCrunch points out, this may be an example of a “credential stuffing attack,” in which hackers scrape usernames and passwords from other hacked sites and try to use them to get into other sites.
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