Spotify did not respond to our follow-up questions.Ĭustomers of Chipotle, DoorDash and OkCupid have all reported account hacks in recent months. Once these sensors are installed, the Spotify Camp Nou will become the first stadium in Spain to be integrated into the Kuppel system, a project approved by NATO and launched in the summer of 2020. Netflix, Facebook and Spotify too have all proactively reset account passwords in the aftermath of third-party data breaches by obtaining the data set and matching exposed passwords against their databases. By scrambling lists of weak or stolen passwords using the same algorithm, companies can match weak passwords against their own databases and proactively send out password reset emails.

Instead, they scramble passwords using a hashing algorithm. Companies typically don’t store user passwords in plaintext.

It’s not uncommon for companies to reset user passwords if they believe they are weak or easily guessed. Two people who commented on this Hacker News thread also said their passwords were unique, casting doubt on the veracity of a credential stuffing attack. Some used the same password across different websites and some used passwords unique to Spotify. We contacted several people who received the email reset message. In other words, Spotify says this is a credential stuffing attack, where hackers take lists of usernames and passwords from other breached sites and brute-force their way into other accounts. As a best practice, we strongly recommend users not to use the same credentials across different services to protect themselves.” When reached, Spotify spokesperson Peter Collins said: “As part of our ongoing maintenance efforts to combat fraudulent activity on our service, we recently shared a communication with select users to reset their passwords as a precaution. You can enter your Facebook email address and the new password instead. Enter your Facebook email address Check your inbox for an email from us to reset your password This means you don’t need to use the Facebook button to log in. Did someone hack in to listen to Justin Bieber or something? Create a Spotify password to log in with your email address instead. However after doing this I am still getting the above error.Spotify just reset my password due to 'suspicious activity'. I checked the repo and saw that I needed to add spotify-action and spotify to ist under LSApplicationQueriesSchemes. canOpenURL: failed for URL: 'spotify-action://' - error: '(null)' I was following a tutorial and ended up with this code.

I'm trying to understand Spotify's login/authorization process.

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