A Spotify music app sign is depicted in the city center in Warsaw, Poland, on December 5, 2025. (Photo by Aleksander Kalka/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Spotify was recently hacked by the pirate activist ...

Hacktivists with the group Anna’s Archive — a search engine for shadow libraries, which are unauthorized collections of digital content — say they’ve found a way to download virtually the entirety of ...

A piracy group called "Anna's Archive" made a bold statement, claiming that it scraped Spotify's platform and was able to acquire over 86 million songs worth 300 terabytes (TB). According to a new ...

Anna's Archive, the open-source search engine for shadow libraries, says it scraped Spotify's entire library of music. The group acquired metadata for around 256 million tracks, with 86 million actual ...

Spotify says it's cutting off access to some user accounts and adding safeguards after a shadow library website claimed to have scraped an immense amount of Spotify's metadata and audio files from the ...

A popular archive hub says it has published a Spotify backup as bulk torrents totaling 300TB or roughly 86 million music files – and Spotify has confirmed the breach. The group, called Anna’s Archive, ...

Anna’s Archive, an open source search engine and shadow library, announced over the weekend that it has scraped metadata from over 250 million Spotify tracks, plus audio files for 86 million tracks.

You may already know Anna’s Archive as one of the most ambitious shadow libraries on the internet—a project dedicated to preserving books and scientific papers at a planetary scale. Now, the group is ...