A pirate group has claimed the Spotify music archive leaked via torrents, exposing metadata and audio files without a direct system breach.

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Anna’s Archive claims it has scraped nearly all of Spotify, acquiring 300TB of data, for a so-called "preservation" project.

In a blog post titled "Backing up Spotify," Anna’s Archive explains how it believes it has built the “world’s first 'preservation archive' for music” through the move. It says it has the metadata of ...

Spotify confirmed the incident and says it has disabled user accounts linked to it, but that won’t un-leak the music.

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The shadow library targeted metadata in what it calls a preservation effort and said it's considering allowing the ...

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Anna's Archive made the metadata library immediately available for public download, and says it will release the rest of the ...

According to Anna’s Archive, the data grab represents more than 99 percent of listens on Spotify, making it “the largest ...

Anna's Archive published a torrents-based Spotify backup: a 300TB release of Spotify catalog metadata today, with staged ...