Don’t download Spotify files warn experts after huge hack
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Security experts have warned users not to download data from 86 million tracks illegally taken from the music-streaming service Spotify just before Christmas.
Hackers from the website Anna’s Archive ‘scraped’ metadata such as playlists, track names and artist info from 99.6 per cent of all tracks listened to on Spotify. The files don’t contain any music.