{"id":6168,"date":"2015-10-10T23:17:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T22:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6168"},"modified":"2015-10-10T23:17:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T22:17:49","slug":"the-curious-case-of-the-spotify-squatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/10\/the-curious-case-of-the-spotify-squatter.htm","title":{"rendered":"The curious case of the Spotify squatter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was playing music on Spotify and it kept stopping because someone else was using my account&#8230; that&#8217;s not an uncommon occurrence as\u00a0my kids are often using it but I didn&#8217;t think they were this\u00a0time. After the usual squabble over &#8220;Play it here&#8221;, Nno, play it here&#8221;, &#8220;No. Play. It. Here.&#8221;, I managed to listen to the tracks I wanted to hear.<\/p>\n<p>Then, this morning,\u00a0I tried to sync some music to my Spotify account, only to find\u00a0that my iPhone told me Spotify was being used on a complete stranger&#8217;s Phone!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hmm&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Spotify\">@Spotify<\/a> database mixup or account hacked?! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PasswordChanged?src=hash\">#PasswordChanged<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/a6fdUrY8Hz\">pic.twitter.com\/a6fdUrY8Hz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Wilson (@markwilsonit) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markwilsonit\/status\/652775866854998016\">October 10, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>One quick password\u00a0change later and I was sure no-one else was using it. I later\u00a0removed all devices from my account and re-added them, just for good measure.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day though, I noticed that all of my playlists were missing. I also saw that my activity stream showed a lot of music that I hadn&#8217;t listened to:<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/spotify-strange-activity.png?resize=700%2C394&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"These are not my songs!\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Someone else has definitely been using my account. Or at least that&#8217;s what Spotify thinks!<\/p>\n<p>I could live with the account activity but missing playlists were a big concern. Luckily, Spotify support pointed me to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotify.com\/account\/recover-playlists\/\">a link to recover playlists<\/a> where, sure enough, I saw\u00a0they had been deleted yesterday! It took a few visits to that link before all of my playlists were located and recovered but I seem to be back to where I was before the mix-up.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I don&#8217;t think that Spotify has been compromised &#8211; if someone had hijacked my account they would have changed my password and locked me out, surely? But I do\u00a0suspect a database corruption. Spotify aren&#8217;t admitting anything is up, of course&#8230; but my trust in the service has been severely damaged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I was playing music on Spotify and it kept stopping because someone else was using my account&#8230; that&#8217;s not an uncommon occurrence as\u00a0my kids are often using it but I didn&#8217;t think they were this\u00a0time. After the usual squabble over &#8220;Play it here&#8221;, Nno, play it here&#8221;, &#8220;No. Play. It. Here.&#8221;, I managed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/10\/the-curious-case-of-the-spotify-squatter.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The curious case of the Spotify squatter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[218],"tags":[43,469],"class_list":["post-6168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-security","tag-spotify"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The curious case of the Spotify squatter - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Strange activity and missing playlists: the curious case of the Spotify squatter...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/10\/the-curious-case-of-the-spotify-squatter.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The curious case of the Spotify squatter - 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