BBS:      TELESC.NET.BR
Assunto:  Pro-Iran hackers claim recent Spotify outage
De:       Mike Powell
Data:     Mon, 18 May 2026 10:40:18 -0500
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Pro-Iran hackers claim recent Spotify outage was revenge for US action in 
their country

Date:
Mon, 18 May 2026 13:42:19 +0000

Spotify was offline for a few hours earlier this month, with users reporting 
the app and web player inaccessible.  The Islamic Cyber Resistance
in Iraq-313 Team, a hacking collective which has been sporadically targeting 
companies and services across the Western world, has claimed responsibility 
for the major outage Spotify experienced recently . 

On May 12 2026, thousands of Spotify users reported having issues with both 
the app and the web player, and the support site. The music streaming service 
confirmed being aware of some issues right now with the app and said it was 
investigating the matter. Now, the pro-Iran hacking group said it was to 
blame for the outage, confirming that Spotify suffered a Distributed Denial 
of Service ( DDoS ) attack.  "The hand
of revenge will reach the killers of Imam Khamenei," the group allegedly said
on Telegram, the Jerusalem Post reported. In the same announcement, the group 
said it carried out a massive cyber attack targeting Spotifys main servers, 
causing a major disruption to the website and completely disabling the 
application 

The problems began around 12pm ET / 5pm BST, with the first reports of the 
outage appearing on Down Detector. Reports grew steadily over the next 20-30 
minutes, peaking at around 14,000 at 1.20pm ET / 6.20pm BST  then appeared to 
drop off. 

However, more than 2 hours later, users in both the US and UK reported 
struggling to get the app to load on either desktop or mobile  though offline 
tunes did seem to work. Eventually, the app on multiple platforms came back 
to life, and Spotify confirmed the issue was fixed shortly before 5pm ET / 
10pm BST. 

The 313 Team is not the most active group around, but it also recently struck 
Canonical , the company behind the popular Linux distribution Ubuntu.

Canonicals web infrastructure is under a sustained, cross-border attack and 
we are working to address it. We will provide more information in our 
official channels as soon as we are able to, the company said at the time. 

Discussing the attack on unofficial Ubuntu forums, community members 
confirmed that the distros security API was affected, as well as multiple 
websites. Updates and system installs were also unavailable at the time.

Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/pro-iran-hackers-claim-recent-spotify-o
utage-was-revenge-for-us-action-in-their-country

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