{"id":90514,"date":"2016-04-26T10:24:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T08:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=90514"},"modified":"2016-04-26T10:28:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T08:28:16","slug":"spotify-may-have-been-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/90514-spotify-may-have-been-hacked","title":{"rendered":"Spotify may have been hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/04\/25\/hundreds-of-spotify-credentials-appear-online-users-report-accounts-hacked-emails-changed\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>list<\/strong> <\/a>containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials has been posted online.<\/p>\n<p>User details including usernames, passwords, and emails have been uploaded to text-sharing site Pastebin.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/04\/25\/hundreds-of-spotify-credentials-appear-online-users-report-accounts-hacked-emails-changed\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Techcrunch<\/strong> <\/a>reached out to some of the listed users who confirmed that their accounts had been compromised several days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Several of these users complained that they had received a password-reset email and a few were even kicked out of the service mid-streaming.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about a possible hack. a Spotify spokesperson confirmed that this was not the case:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSpotify has not been hacked and our user records are secure. We monitor Pastebin and other sites regularly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When we find Spotify credentials, we first verify that they are authentic, and if they are, we immediately notify affected users to change their passwords.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We will update as the story develops.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to BT Games fighting to keep gaming prices as low as possible\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/87969-bt-games-fighting-to-keep-gaming-prices-as-low-as-possible.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">BT Games fighting to keep gaming prices as low as possible<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Doom creators unveil new fast-paced first-person shooter \u2013 Blackroom\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/90496-doom-creators-unveil-new-fast-paced-first-person-shooter-blackroom.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Doom creators unveil new fast-paced first-person shooter \u2013 Blackroom<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How to stream and record Xbox One games to your PC without a capture card\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/89871-how-to-stream-and-record-xbox-one-games-to-your-pc-without-a-capture-card.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to stream and record Xbox One games to your PC without a capture card<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several users are now reporting that their credentials have leaked online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":90518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,18288,18284,2378,18286,1447],"class_list":["post-90514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-active","tag-engineering","tag-homework","tag-internet","tag-math","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90528,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90514\/revisions\/90528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}