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Spotify Faces Major Data Breach: 300TB Leaked

12/22/2025

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Spotify Data Breach

On December 22, 2025, Spotify confirmed a data breach involving a scrape by Anna's Archive that released about 300 terabytes of metadata and audio files.
The leak includes 256 million track metadata entries and access to 86 million audio files.
Spotify disabled accounts linked to the scraping and implemented new safeguards.
The leaked data reflects content available through July 2025 and indicates a credential reuse risk for users.

Summary

Spotify Data Leak

Spotify confirmed on December 22, 2025, that a pirate activist group scraped its music library.
The breach released about 300 terabytes of data, including 256 million tracks and 86 million audio files, representing about 99.6% of Spotify's listening activity.
Anna's Archive, the group behind the leak, aims to create a preservation archive for music.
Spotify disabled the involved accounts and is strengthening safeguards against similar attacks.

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Spotify Data Breach

On December 22, 2025, Spotify confirmed a data breach involving a scrape by Anna's Archive that released about 300 terabytes of metadata and audio files.
The leak includes 256 million track metadata entries and access to 86 million audio files.
Spotify disabled accounts linked to the scraping and implemented new safeguards.
The leaked data reflects content available through July 2025 and indicates a credential reuse risk for users.

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