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No, Spotify Wasn't Hacked

Troy Hunt

I just went and looked at the pastes HIBP has collected since the clock ticked over to 2019 and found 20 of them already: Digging further, I found over a thousand pastes with "Spotify" in the title. Instead, they need to look inwardly and adjust their own security practices instead. That's it, job done, they're into your account.

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The 773 Million Record "Collection #1" Data Breach

Troy Hunt

One of my contacts pointed me to a popular hacking forum where the data was being socialised, complete with the following image: As you can see at the top left of the image, the root folder is called "Collection #1" hence the name I've given this breach. pic.twitter.com/6ZKcGHfHhq — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) January 13, 2019.