{"id":6305,"date":"2025-12-22T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/?p=6305"},"modified":"2025-12-22T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:00:17","slug":"pirate-activists-have-copied-spotifys-entire-music-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/?p=6305","title":{"rendered":"Pirate activists have copied Spotify\u2019s entire music library"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"grid grid--cols-10@md grid--cols-8@lg article-column\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-10@md col-6@lg col-start-3@lg\">\n<div class=\"article-column__content\">\n<div class=\"container\"><\/div>\n<p>A collective of pirate activists say they gained access to 256 million rows of metadata and 86 million audio files, equivalent to around 300 terabytes of data, from Spotify, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/business\/streaming\/spotify-music-library-leak-1236143970\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Billboard<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The metadata, but no audio files, has been made publicly available through the open search engine <a href=\"https:\/\/annas-archive.li\/blog\/backing-up-spotify.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna\u2019s Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anna\u2019s Archive describes the project as an effort to \u201cpreserve the knowledge and culture of humanity\u201d by creating a music archive for preservation purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Spotify itself has confirmed that it is investigating a breach in which a third party allegedly data scraped public metadata and unauthorizedly circumvented DRM protection to access certain audio files.<\/p>\n<p>More on hactivism:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/3985995\/digital-marauders-who-just-want-attention.html\">Don\u2019t give hacktivists what they really want<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/570623\/hacktivism-s-reemergence-explained-data-drops-and-defacements-for-social-justice.html\">Hacktivism\u2019s reemergence explained: Data drops and defacements for social justice<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/1291724\/london-internet-attack-highlights-confusing-wide-ranging-hacktivism-movement.html\">London internet attack highlights confusing hacktivism movement<br \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/570623\/hacktivism-s-reemergence-explained-data-drops-and-defacements-for-social-justice.html\"><br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collective of pirate activists say they gained access to 256 million rows of metadata and 86 million audio files, equivalent to around 300 terabytes of data, from Spotify, Billboard reports. The metadata, but no audio files, has been made publicly available through the open search engine Anna\u2019s Archive. Anna\u2019s Archive describes the project as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}