Spotify, the Sweden based streaming music service which recently hit the one million mark, reveled that the user database was hacked by some unknown group. Hackers exploited a bug which was fixed back in December.
“Along with passwords, registration information such as your email address, birth date, gender, postal code and billing receipt details were potentially exposed. Credit card numbers are not stored by us and were not at risk.” Spotify posted on its blog.
http://www.spotify.com/blog/archives/2009/03/04/spotify-security-notice/
Spotify was gaining reputation as the tool which will eventually kill file-sharing as more and more people will switch to the streaming instead of file swapping. It’s horrifying to learn that services such as this, stores the password in the database without any encryption. If you are a Spotify user or if you have signed up to their service and share the same password with other services, change all the passwords immediately.
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