The popular music streaming service, Spotify, is the latest victim in a stream of cyber attacks such as Microsoft Windows PCs by WannaCry, DaFont - a popular font sharing site and India's largest restaurant search and discovery service Zomato.
A hacker group, which calls itself The Leak Boat, claimed responsibility for the attack on Spotify and reportedly dumped login details of 9,000 user accounts on a publicly available website. But the dumped data on text storage site Ghostbin has usernames and passwords for only 6,410 accounts contrary to what the hacking group claimed.
The Twitter handle @SecTeamSix_ was created a year ago, and has since been active only this month. The hacker group has publicly listed the login credentials of hacked accounts from various websites and also shared private videos and photographs of various celebrities, including Iggy Azalea, Jillian Murray and Jeniffer Lawrence.
The usernames and passwords are published in plain text format, making the owners of those accounts extremely vulnerable. Anyone who visits the website can pick up the username and password to login to Spotify and use the music streaming service. In order to check if you are affected by the latest attack, go to Ghostbin data dump site and look for your username.
9,000 #Spotify accounts, enjoy.https://t.co/RtIWYQp8tm#SecTeamSix.
— The Leak Boat (@SecTeamSix_) May 23, 2017
Instead of going through thousands of Spotify accounts, hold down the "CTRL" on your keyboard and press the letter "F". This will open a search window on top right, which you can use to type in your Spotify username and locate it instantly.
If you find that your username and password is publicly listed on the site, it is highly recommended to change the password immediately. In case the same login credentials are used on different websites, make sure it is changed to something much secure. It is best to use a combination of characters, including alphabets, numbers and special characters.
The Spotify hack is one of many notorious activities carried out by The Leak Boat. In an attempt to rake in more followers, the hacking group has promised to release 10 more private videos, photos of celebrities upon reaching 600 followers on Twitter.
600 followers, we'll rain another 10 #Fappining celebs.
— The Leak Boat (@SecTeamSix_) May 23, 2017
The latest celeb victim of The Leak Boat is Kristanna Loken as well as a wizard game website – wizard101.com.
