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

Hackers illegally scraped up to 86 million tracks and metadata for 256 million tracks in a bid to create an open 'preservation archive'.

Spotify has confirmed a massive unauthorised scrape of its music library after Anna’s Archive claimed it backed up metadata and audio files for millions of tracks.

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A hacker group claims to have scraped Spotify’s most popular music tracks and metadata, and is calling its booty the “world’s first preservation archive for music.” ...

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

The group says it gathered data in the interest of "preservation," while Spotify says it shut down unlawful accounts.