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Anca Ulea

Spotify investigates data breach, after pirate group claims it ‘scraped’ its music library

Streaming platform Spotify confirmed on Monday its library had been scraped by a third party, after a pirate activist group claimed it released metadata for the platform’s entire music catalogue.

According to a blog post on the open source search engine Anna’s Archive, the release includes metadata for 256 million tracks and 86 million audio files, representing around 99.6 percent of listens.

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