{"id":103073,"date":"2014-05-28T01:49:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T23:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=103073"},"modified":"2014-05-28T01:50:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T23:50:24","slug":"spotify-hacked-android-app-to-be-updated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/103073-spotify-hacked-android-app-to-be-updated.html","title":{"rendered":"Spotify hacked, Android app to be updated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish music streaming service Spotify said Tuesday its system had been attacked by a hacker, but that banking or payment data had not been accessed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We detected unauthorised access to our systems and internal company data,&#8221; the firm said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As soon as we became aware of the intrusion, we immediately launched an investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Spotify explained that only the data of one user had been affected, but that these did not include any passwords or banking and payment information.<\/p>\n<p>The company said that it would update its Android application in the next days and ask some of its users to reenter their user name and password to log in.<\/p>\n<p>Spotify claims to have 40 million active users in 56 countries including 10 million premium customers.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Internet news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/103043-fake-numsa-twitter-account-impersonates-irvin-jim.html\">Fake Numsa Twitter account impersonates Irvin Jim<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/103009-yesallwomen-anti-misogyny-campaign-hits-twitter.html\">#YesAllWomen anti-misogyny campaign hits Twitter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/103001-beware-of-fake-sa-government-social-media-accounts.html\">Beware of fake SA government social media accounts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish music streaming service Spotify said Tuesday its system had been attacked by a hacker, but that banking or payment data had not been accessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":93513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[7979,7927],"class_list":["post-103073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-quicknews","tag-spotify"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}