One of the largest and most widely used subscription-based music streaming services temporarily crashed this past week. On Tuesday, March 8, 2022, Spotify suffered a breach within their system that caused millions of subscribers to be logged out of their accounts while being prevented from the allowance of singing back in. As users all across the world attempted to log back into their accounts, most ran into the same problem in their password either not being recognized or identified as incorrect: Spotify currently obtains a total of approximately 406 million active monthly users.
The popular streaming platform uploaded a public statement onto their Twitter account around 1:22 p.m. EST in regards to the previous halt in their services network. “We’re all mixed up. Something’s not quite right, and we’re looking into it,” the company announced. “Thanks for your reports!” Official claims have it that, so far, only less than half of the affected were able to fully recover their accounts, while the remainder of the group are forced to create an entirely new account or simply reset their password if given the opportunity.
Popular instant messaging software, Discord, also had its systems fail in sync with Spotify’s abrupt crash. However, Discord managed to get to the bottom of their problems and come to a clear resolution to restore and allow their service to continue operating at 100 percent. “Discord is back up and running for messages, calls, and streams,” a representative from the business stated in a recent tweet. “We are still working on a few things like attachments and typing events, but those should come back online soon… Thanks for your patience everyone.”