Spotify reported that a third party had scraped parts of its music catalogue after a pirate activist group claimed it had released metadata and audio files linked to hundreds of millions of tracks.
The streaming company said an investigation found that unauthorised users accessed public metadata and used illicit methods to bypass digital rights management controls to obtain some audio files.
Spotify said it had disabled the accounts involved and introduced additional safeguards.
The claims were made by a group calling itself Anna’s Archive, which runs an open source search engine known for indexing pirated books and academic texts.
In a blog post, the group said it had backed up Spotify’s music catalogue and released metadata covering 256 million tracks and 86 million audio files.
The group said the data spans music uploaded to Spotify between 2007 and 2025 and represents about 99.6 percent of listens on the platform.
Spotify, which hosts more than 100 million tracks and has over 700 million users globally, said the material does not represent its full inventory.
The company added that it has no indication that private user data was compromised, saying the only user related information involved was public playlists.
The group said the files total just under 300 te
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