Spotify competitor Deezer has reported a data leak: Around 229 million user information is said to have been published.
Data leak website Have I Been Pwned added more than 229 million email addresses to its database. These come from Spotify competitor Deezer, which announced a data leak at the end of last year.
As the music service reports , the published user information resulted from a hack by a service provider with which the company worked until 2020. The data itself should correspond to the user information from 2019.
The compromised data included “basic information such as first and last name, dates of birth and email addresses”. No information about passwords or payment details has been published, Deezer said.
Location data has also been released
According to “Have I Been Pwned”, IP addresses, location data and gender information are also said to have been published.
If you want to check whether your data is among the information published by the hackers, you can do so on the Have I Been Pwned website . The service makes it possible to use a user’s email address to find out whether personal data has been compromised in hacks.
The Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) advises Internet users to continuously check whether sensitive data such as user names and passwords have been stolen when data leaks become known.
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Deezer is a music streaming service from France that claims to have 10.5 million subscribers worldwide at the end of 2021. Last year, the Spotify rival ventured into the stock market.
