ACTION ALERT (Patreon)

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2020-12-01 18:00:04

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2022-07

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If you haven't logged into your Spotify account in a while, you may see it requires a password reset due to a leak of creds for about 350,000 users. While you are likely not in this small percentage of users affected, it's still a good idea to check just to be sure. Also, make sure your creds for Spotify aren't being used elsewhere.

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Spotify launches 'rolling reset' on customer accounts, passwords linked to data leak | ZDNet

Spotify has issued a rolling password reset of some user accounts following the discovery of an open database containing user credentials. This week, vpnMentor researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar made their findings public, in which an open Elasticsearch database was found during the firm's web mapping project.