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The email from Spotify also provided the user with a resource to contact to recover the account. Īnother user said they received an email from Spotify alerting them that the email address associated with their account was changed. Spotify thankfully helped me recover,” one user wrote. Rumor of the security breach started on Reddit when a user going by the name Keoft reported receiving an email from breach alert service Have I Been Pwned that warned emails and passwords may have been compromised.Īccording to Keoft, the breach was related to a Pastebin-a temporary and anonymous service that allows people to host text for free-document that contained “thousands of emails and passwords.” The Reddit user theorized the Pastebin information must have stemmed from a breach that affected Spotify.Īfter making the post, a number of other Spotify users on Reddit chimed in to say they recently experienced strange activity taking place on their accounts.

A number of Spotify users have reported receiving emails that suggest the music streaming service may have experienced a security breach, though the company has denied that any hack has taken place.