Spotify is enhancing security and disabling user accounts after the pirate group Anna's Archive claimed to have scraped nearly 300 terabytes of data from the service.The digital collective announced it extracted metadata for 256 million tracks and 86 million audio files, covering approximately 99.6% of all user listens on the platform.While spokesperson
Laura Batey confirmed that no sensitive user data was exposed, experts like
Ed Newton-Rex warned the dataset could be used to train
AI models.
Published: Monday