Spotify denies it was hacked after global outage

Several Spotify users reported not being able to access the music streaming service on Wednesday (16 April).

The platform confirmed it was experiencing technical issues, affecting users globally. 

It denies that the outage was the result of a security breach.

“We are aware of the outage and working to resolve it as soon as possible. The reports of this being a security hack are false.”

Over 48,000 people reported having problems with Spotify on Downdetector, which tracks app outages in real-time.

Spotify has over 675 million users worldwide.

All services were restored on the same day.