After a recent credential stuffing attack, Spotify has reportedly started resetting the passwords of over 300 million accounts that were targeted. The action has been taken after vpnMentor’s research team delved deep into an Elasticsearch database comprising of more than 380 million records that even contained login credentials as well as other user data being validated against the Spotify service.
According to vpnMentor’s research team led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, The size of database was 72GB database and it contained over 380 million records. However, there is no source of origin of the database and how the fraudsters were targeting Spotify. It is believed that the hackers were likely using these stolen login credentials from another platform, app, or website to access Spotify accounts.
The vpnMentor further notified about the discovery and investigation timeline. This was discovered on July 3, 2020 (reviewed on July 9th) and Spotify was contacted on July 9th, 2020. The action took place between July 10 and July 21. It also confirmed that the database belonged to a group or individual using it to defraud Spotify and its users.
Meanwhile, Spotify also announced its acquisition of Megaphone, one of the world’s leading podcast advertising and publishing platforms. The acquisition of Megaphone represents the next step in Spotify’s expanding the possibilities of this intimate and screen-less medium. At the top of the year, we launched Streaming Ad Insertion, an innovative podcast ad technology that delivers the intimacy and quality of traditional podcast ads with the precision and transparency of modern-day digital marketing. The results of Streaming Ad Insertion have been encouraging to say the least and have further validated our commitment to the significant potential of podcast advertising.
Spotify and Megaphone will together offer podcast publishers innovative tools that will help them earn more from their work. This includes the opportunity to opt in to have their content monetized, matching their loyal listeners with even greater demand from advertisers. Spotify also shared that it will soon make Streaming Ad Insertion available to podcast publishers on Megaphone. That means that podcast publishers will be able to offer more-valuable podcast audiences to advertisers based on confirmed ad impressions. From groundbreaking authentic voices to can’t-miss news and information, podcasting is one of the most exciting mediums of in the current time.
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