Latest Spotify news

Apple blames Spotify for $1.95 billion fine over "abusive" App store rules

The European Commission has fined Apple €1.8 billion, or approximately $1.95 million, for allegedly abusing its market dominance in music streaming app distribution to prevent developers from promoting cheaper services outside the app.
- Lawrence Abrams
- March 04, 2024
- 12:58 PM
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Spotify down: music searches, pages, account signups not working

Spotify users are reporting the music streaming service to be down in the last hour. Spotify team is currently investigating the cause.
- Ax Sharma
- August 04, 2023
- 09:16 AM
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Spotify reportedly makes users' private playlists public

In what is shaping up to be a widespread privacy controversy, Spotify has come under scrutiny following allegations by users that the music streaming service made their private playlists public without their consent.
- Mayank Parmar
- July 14, 2023
- 12:28 PM
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Researchers release exploit details for Backstage pre-auth RCE bug

Older versions of the Spotify Backstage development portal builder are vulnerable to a critical (CVSS score: 9.8) unauthenticated remote code execution flaw allowing attackers to run commands on publicly exposed systems.
- Bill Toulas
- November 15, 2022
- 11:29 AM
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How to control Spotify while playing a game in Windows 10

While playing a game, you may want to listen to your playlist rather than the in-game music to get the most out of your gaming experience. Unfortunately, it can be a pain to alt-tab out of the game to control your music.
- Lawrence Abrams
- May 08, 2021
- 09:12 AM
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Fake Microsoft Store, Spotify sites spread info-stealing malware

Attackers are promoting sites impersonating the Microsoft Store, Spotify, and an online document converter that distribute malware to steal credit cards and passwords saved in web browsers.
- Lawrence Abrams
- April 20, 2021
- 10:37 AM
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Over 300K Spotify accounts hacked in credential stuffing attack

Hackers have been attempting to gain access to Spotify accounts using a database of 380 million records with login credentials and personal information collected from various sources.
- Lawrence Abrams
- November 23, 2020
- 04:07 PM
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Spotify hit with outage after forgetting to renew a certifficate

Spotify was hit with a brief outage today after they forgot to renew a certificate used as part of their service.
- Lawrence Abrams
- August 19, 2020
- 05:31 PM
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Microsoft Launches New Spotify Add-In for Skype Insiders

Microsoft today announced a new add-in for Skype that integrates Spotify into a conversation. Microsoft says that the new feature/add-in is currently available for Skype Insiders in the US.
- Mayank Parmar
- August 08, 2018
- 01:43 PM
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Tech Support Scammers Invade Spotify Forums to Rank in Search Engines

Over the past few months, Tech Support scammers have been using the Spotify forums to inject their phone numbers into the first page of the Google & Bing search results. They do this by submitting a constant stream of spam posts to the Spotify forums, whose pages tend to rank well in Google.
- Lawrence Abrams
- December 11, 2017
- 03:01 PM
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