March 5, 2009 10:17

Spotify hack puts users' details at risk

Chiefs urge users to change the passwords pronto

Spotify chiefs have warned users that the service has been hacked - with a group potentially gaining access to users' details including their email address, birth date, gender, postal code and billing receipt details.

In a Spotify blog they assured users that credit card details would not have been exposed, as they were stored by a third party, but urged anyone who had signed up to the service before December 19 last year, and had not changed their password since, to change their password to thwart the hackers.

The Spotify chiefs signed off by issuing an apology to their users. "We are really sorry about this and hope you accept our apologies," they wrote.

They added: "We're doubling our efforts to keep the systems secure in order to prevent anything like this from happening again."