31 August 2016 By Joseph Cox.
Popular music streaming service Spotify is actively resetting a number of users' passwords. The company claims this is in response to data breaches of other websites, implying that the problem may be customers reusing passwords.
“To protect your Spotify account, we've reset your password. This is because we believe it may have been compromised during a leak on another service with which you use the same password,” an email sent to a user on Wednesday reads.
“Don't worry! This is purely a preventative security measure. Nobody has accessed your Spotify account, and your data is secure,” it continues.
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After Breaches At Other Services, Spotify Is Resetting Users' Passwords
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Confused...especially when they say things like "Nobody has accessed your Spotify account, and your data is secure". If that is the case then my bother to hassle users with such a development...LOL :@
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+54It reminded of the Dropbox hack last week, they downplayed that as well and it is only this week that the setails have started to come out. They should give a reason for resetting passwords like that.@ wrote:
Confused...especially when they say things like "Nobody has accessed your Spotify account, and your data is secure". If that is the case then my bother to hassle users with such a development...LOL :@
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