Some of the world’s most popular singers have had their Spotify pages defaced by a hacker who posted messages about Donald Trump and Taylor Swift including Lana Del Rey and Dua Lipa had their biographies replaced by the attacker. Daniel, the hacker, replaced these photos with photos of himself. The attacker also asked people to add him on Snapchat, and added the words “Trump 2020”.
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December 03, 2020
While the Spotify Artist Pages hack makes headlines, more important is the recent report of up to 350,000 Spotify user accounts being hacked, exposing sensitive information, including users' email addresses, usernames, and passwords.
While Spotify has contacted the users believed to have had their information exposed, even users that haven't been contacted shouldn't feel safe. They should change their password to a secure password, set up the platform's two-factor authentication, check to make .....Read More
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December 03, 2020
The big question about the attack on Spotify is whether it occurred through the artists' portal where they can claim and manage their own pages, or through some other internal Spotify system. Both would be concerning but the latter much more so, as it would require compromising Spotify's security and not just the login information of a few artists.
Defacement is a popular sort of sport among a niche community of hackers, though it usually occurs on websites rather than apps.
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@Tim Mackey, Principal Security Strategist, Synopsys CyRC (Cybersecurity Research Center), provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
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@Tim Mackey, Principal Security Strategist, Synopsys CyRC (Cybersecurity Research Center), provides expert commentary at @Information Security Buzz.
"From a public perspective, without clarity around how the Spotify for Artists web site is related to the consumer Spotify site...."
#infosec #cybersecurity #isdots
https://informationsecuritybuzz.com/expert-comments/experts-reaction-on-dua-lipa-and-other-spotify-artists-pages-hacked-by-taylor-swift-fan