{"id":2188,"date":"2025-12-23T20:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2025-12-23T20:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:07:14","slug":"spotify-music-catalogue-hacked-by-piracy-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=2188","title":{"rendered":"Spotify music catalogue hacked by piracy activists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Music streaming service\u00a0Spotify\u00a0said Monday it had disabled accounts from a piracy activist hacker group that claimed to have \u201cbacked up\u201d millions of Spotify\u2019s music files and metadata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group Anna\u2019s Archives said in a blog post it had backed up 86 million Spotify tracks and the metadata for 256 million tracks \u2014 a process known as \u201cscraping\u201d \u2014 in order to start an open \u201cpreservation archive\u201d for music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wizkid - Bad Girl (Audio) ft. 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