Got this email today
> To protect your Spotify account, we've reset your password due to detected suspicious activity.
Haven’t used it recently or logged in to any new device. Leads me to suspect a data breach.
Ask HN: What happened to trigger my Spotify password reset?
1–10 of 16 posts
Re: Ask HN: What happened to trigger my Spotify password reset?
#2They check passwords against other hacks, so if you used the same email-password combination somewhere else that would cause them to reset your account.
https://www.businessinsider.de/spotify-users-password-reset-... "Spotify's security team identified that some of the leaked user credentials might correspond to Spotify accounts"
Re: Ask HN: What happened to trigger my Spotify password reset?
#3I had a similar issue not long ago. I went in and really changed it into a massive 50 character pw.
My spotify account was hijacked in 2017 and managed to get it back - someone from Tunisia - he had the audacity to start creating playlists full of autotune rappers. I wouldn't mind sharing but man his taste in music was awful.
Re: Ask HN: What happened to trigger my Spotify password reset?
#4I had a similar issue not long ago. I went in and really changed it into a massive 50 character pw. My spotify account was hijacked in 2017 and managed to get it back - someone from Tunisia - he had the audacity to start creating playlists full of autotune rappers. I wouldn't mind sharing but man his taste in music was awful.
Interesting. A couple months ago I did have some weird thing where some song I never heard of kept playing and starting again when I chose my own song. My account is a free one, and limited to one concurrent player, so I see no need to “share”
Re: Ask HN: What happened to trigger my Spotify password reset?
#5I had a similar issue not long ago. I went in and really changed it into a massive 50 character pw. My spotify account was hijacked in 2017 and managed to get it back - someone from Tunisia - he had the audacity to start creating playlists full of autotune rappers. I wouldn't mind sharing but man his taste in music was awful.
Same thing happened to me, right around the same time. Also my hijacker shared a similar taste in music to yours! Spotify denied that they had any database breaches, but I only use that password for spotify so I find that highly unlikely.
Re: Ask HN: What happened to trigger my Spotify password reset?
#6I had the same message a few days ago. I have family premium, so, I checked the family invites, and, there were 3 unknown invites that I hadn’t seen before (they hadn’t accepted them yet though). It seems odd that I wouldn’t get an email saying that a family invite was sent out.
Re: Ask HN: What happened to trigger my Spotify password reset?
#7I had a similar issue not long ago. I went in and really changed it into a massive 50 character pw. My spotify account was hijacked in 2017 and managed to get it back - someone from Tunisia - he had the audacity to start creating playlists full of autotune rappers. I wouldn't mind sharing but man his taste in music was awful.
Same thing happened to me, right around the same time. Also my hijacker shared a similar taste in music to yours! Spotify denied that they had any database breaches, but I only use that password for spotify so I find that highly unlikely.
Yes. And my login is specific to spotify, eg. *+spotify@gmail.com
Re: Ask HN: What happened to trigger my Spotify password reset?
#8They check passwords against other hacks, so if you used the same email-password combination somewhere else that would cause them to reset your account. https://www.businessinsider.de/spotify-users-password-reset-... "Spotify's security team identified that some of the leaked user credentials might correspond to Spotify accounts"
My email for spotify login is unique, and of the form *+spotify@gmail.com
Re: Ask HN: What happened to trigger my Spotify password reset?
#9Maybe spotify downloaded a data breach and ran it against their db to force better password practices?
My user/default password plaintext combo from when I was 15 was leaked in some EA hack a long time ago. That caused such a headache that I stopped using the same thing everywhere except free services. This initially included spotify. Then I upgraded to premium, and about a month later someone was trying to kick me out of my account (listening from their device) and kept playing weird music. Now everything has its own password. EVERYTHING.
Re: Ask HN: What happened to trigger my Spotify password reset?
#10They check passwords against other hacks, so if you used the same email-password combination somewhere else that would cause them to reset your account. https://www.businessinsider.de/spotify-users-password-reset-... "Spotify's security team identified that some of the leaked user credentials might correspond to Spotify accounts"
My email for spotify login is unique, and of the form *+spotify@gmail.com
more or less everyone analyzing email addresses knows that pattern, so it's easily ignored.