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TL; DR
- Last Tuesday, May 12, Spotify experienced an hour-long outage.
- After the service was restored, the pro-Iranian hacker group 313 Team claimed responsibility.
- The group says the DDoS attack is revenge for the US assassination of Iran’s ruler Ali Khamenei.
Last Tuesday, music fans were looking for a bit of entertainment to get them, although they encountered a small hiccup in the afternoon: Spotify is suddenly useless for many users. It took several hours, but eventually the company was able to restore service that day. In itself this would not be particularly noteworthy; breaks happen all the time. But as you can see, this interruption can be a direct result of political activism.
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according to the report prepared by McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure SecurityA pro-Iranian hacking organization known as the 313 Team claimed responsibility for the Spotify outage last week (via Technical radar). The group said it had launched a “massive cyber attack targeting Spotify’s main servers”, with the DDoS attack resulting in a service outage that we’ve seen affecting users around the world.
Specifically, the 313 Team described their actions as revenge for the US assassination of Iranian ruler Ali Khamenei in late February.
The assassination of Khamenei was the first blow to the United States, which was waging an illegal war with Iran without the authorization of the US Congress. The ill-conceived military operation has already had devastating international repercussions, displaced millions of civilians in the Middle East and sent global fuel prices into the stratosphere. If you’re already pissed off about the US administration’s lack of empathy for what we all pay for at the gas pump, you can now add “responsibility for the recent Spotify outage” to its ever-growing list of crimes.
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