

With a presence in over 180 countries, it had more than 422 million users as of Q1 2022.īut as is the case with the majority of popular streaming services, users have complained about bugs such as offline music not working on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and Discover Weekly playlist updating with the same songs as last week.Īdding another one to the list, it looks like the Spotify for Windows app is crashing at login, during playback, and after the song ends ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). NEW DELHI: The Swedish music streaming service suffered a rare outage on Friday as users were unable to listen to their favourite songs for nearly an hour.In the past couple of years, the music streaming industry has seen a significant rise in the user base.Īnd thanks to data getting cheaper all over the world, music enthusiasts are increasingly leaning towards services like Spotify.

The leaked data only relates to a tiny fraction of Spotify's 299 million active monthly user base. It is estimated that roughly 300,000 to 350,000 accounts were affected in the leak in which email addresses and login credentials - usernames and passwords - were exposed. VPN review website vpnMentor said earlier this week that its research team discovered a possible credential stuffing operation whose origins are unknown, but that affected some online users who also have Spotify accounts.Ĭredential stuffing is a hacking technique that takes advantage of weak passwords that consumers use - and often re-use - online. The outage came at a time when the music streaming service Music launched a rolling password reset of some consumer accounts after an open database containing credentials of some users were exposed. The service also faced problems earlier this year during a broader Facebook iOS SDK problem.

Last Spotify outage happened in August after the company reportedly forgot to renew its TLS certificate (TLS certificates are a sort of digital certificate, issued by a Certificate Authority). The service resumed to normal after an hour or so. Need more help? Let know!," the company said in a tweet. "We've made a few tweaks backstage, so everything should be back to normal. The widespread outage affected users in countries across Europe and beyond in the afternoon (India time).
