Quote:In the midst of its popular Spotify Wrapped 2020 playlist rollout of the year’s most popular songs, the streaming service is grappling with a security breach, which affected the pages of some of its biggest stars, including Lana Del Rey, Dua Lipa, Future, Pop Smoke and others.
 
Spotify is the most popular music streaming service in the world with 320 million users, according to the company.
 
The target of the attack, according to the BBC, was a Spotify site specifically for musicians and their labels, called Spotify for Artists. The site is password-protected to allow only artists and their teams to make changes to the pages. The attacker seemingly bypassed those protections.
 
The malicious actor called himself “Daniel” and used the pop stars’ pages to ask people to follow him on Snapchat, adding “Trump 2020,” to the message. Daniel also used the stunt to pledge his love to one pop star in particular: “Best of all shout out to my queen Taylor Swift,” he wrote. Users shared images of the hijacked pages on Twitter, including this one for Lana Del Rey where Daniel swapped out Lana’s photo for Taylor’s.

Future’s Spotify page featured what is presumably a pic of Daniel listening to Pop Smoke’s page. Images of both takeovers were posted to Twitter by users who generally thought the scam was more funny than dangerous.

The pages appear to have been restored, but Spotify has not responded to requests for comment to confirm that the breach is contained.