The Hacker wrote ‘Trump 2020’ and ‘best of all shout out to my queen Taylor Swift’.

Dua Lipa and Lana Del Ray are amongst the musicians to have had their Spotify accounts vandalised this week by a criminal hacker, who referred to himself as ‘Daniel’.

The accounts showed messages of support to Donald Trump and artist Taylor Swift during the attack in which the hacker changed their account biography and profile picture to an image of himself.

On top of this, ‘Daniel’ also uploaded images asking people to follow him on Snapchat.

The accounts have all now been restored. It’s possible that the artists whose pages were defaced were the victims of a phishing scam, with the attacker gaining access to their login details to manage these pages.

A mentor from VPNMentor, who worked with Spotify to isolate the issue and identify any users potentially affected said: “In this case, the incident didn’t originate from Spotify. The exposed database belonged to a third party that was using it to store Spotify login credentials,” the researchers stated in a blog post detailing their findings.

“These credentials were most likely obtained illegally or potentially leaked from other sources that were repurposed for credential stuffing attacks against Spotify.”

Spotify have been involved in several data scandals recently however the high-profile nature of this attack may come as a shock to many.

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