Spotify Hacked: Thousands Of Accounts’ Login Credentials Released By The Leak Boat

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UPDATE: 9 p.m. EDT — In a statement to International Business Times regarding the hacking of some user accounts, Spotify said Tuesday evening: “We monitor Pastebin and other sites regularly. When we find Spotify credentials, we first verify that they are authentic, and if they are, we immediately notify affected users to change their passwords.”

 

UPDATE: 7 a.m. EDT — According to some other hackers and people familiar with such matters, the Spotify hack is actually just a dump of resused passwords, and the lack of complex passwords in the list was mentioned as one of the proofs for the claim.

If true, and your account details are in that list, it is all the more reason for you to change your password to a complex, secure one. And you should do that not only on Spotify, but for all your online accounts.

 

Original story:

Late Monday night, a hacking group revealed the login credentials of thousands of Spotify accounts. In its announcement on Twitter, the Leak Boat said it was 9,000 accounts, but the page that listed all the account details had information of fewer than 6,500 Spotify subscribers.

 

The group, which has previously released hacked accounts from various websites, as well as private videos and photographs of several celebrities, posted the information on a publicly available website. To check the authenticity of the claim, the International Business Times tried a few randomly chosen username and password combinations, and they all gave access to the Spotify subscribers’ accounts.

 

To know if your account was among the 6,410 that are listed on this public page, head over to it and check for your username. If you find your login information on the page, and don’t want it compromised any further, we recommend you change your password immediately. And if you use the same login credentials, especially the same password, on any other websites, we recommend you change those too. Otherwise, you run the risk of having your other online accounts being compromised as well.

 

The Spotify users hacked Monday night are from all over the world.

International Business Times has reached out to Spotify for comment, but the music streaming service has yet to respond.

 

Following the Spotify leak, the Leak Boat also invoked recently ousted FBI Director James Comey, in a sarcastic bid to reassure anyone worried by its activities.

Members of the Leak Boat seem to have been busy Monday night. They also released a few login credentials for wizard101.com, a website to play a wizard game. The group said it was for kids to enjoy.

 

If you have an account on the website, you can check if you were compromised by checking for your login details on this page. If your account was hacked, you should consider changing your password not just on wizard101.com but on all other websites where you use the same password.

 

Shortly before leaking the Spotify accounts, the group, whose Twitter handle is @SecTeamSix_, said it was considering starting a “Lulzcalypse” — a reference to starting an apocalyptic storm of leaks, only for laughs, at least as seen from its point of view. In later tweets, the group referred to it as a “Leakocalypse,” presumably not finding it all so funny any more.

 

But the very next tweet after the “Lulzocalypse” one from the group said it would release 10 more private videos and/or photographs of celebrities, if it reached 600 followers on the social media platform. The group had 490 followers on Twitter at the time this story was written.

 

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[BioHazard]

looks like it's Spotify free account only.

[Alanon]

Whew, got a bit tense there, for a moment. Luckily, not hacked.

[polz]

just renew my premium 3 month 5 days ago and not on the list