Spotify Breach Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (SPO1766397392)

In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Spotify breach identified under incident ID SPO1766397392.

The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Spotify's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/spotify, the number of followers: 4428843, the industry type: Musicians and the number of employees: 17866 employees

After the initial compromise, the video explains how Rankiteo's incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score. The incident score before the incident was 801 and after the incident was 752 with a difference of -49 which is could be a good indicator of the severity and impact of the incident.

In the next step of the video, we will analyze in more details the incident and the impact it had on Spotify and their customers.

Spotify recently reported "Spotify Music Catalog Leak by Pirate Activist Group", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.

A pirate activist group extracted Spotify’s entire music catalog and released approximately 300 terabytes of audio files and metadata across peer-to-peer networks.

The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Spotify’s music catalog and metadata database, and exposing 300 terabytes of audio files and metadata, with nearly 86 million audio files, 256 million rows of metadata records at risk.

In response, teams activated the incident response plan, and stakeholders are being briefed through Public statement via Billboard.

The case underscores how Ongoing.

Finally, we try to match the incident with the MITRE ATT&CK framework to see if there is any correlation between the incident and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a knowledge base of techniques and sub-techniques that are used to describe the tactics and procedures of cyber adversaries. It is a powerful tool for understanding the threat landscape and for developing effective defense strategies.

Rankiteo's analysis has identified several MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques associated with this incident, each with varying levels of confidence based on available evidence. Under the Initial Access tactic, the analysis identified Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate to high confidence (70%), with evidence including scraped public metadata, and bypassed digital rights management (DRM). Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol (T1048) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including released across peer-to-peer networks, and 300 terabytes of audio files and metadata exfiltrated and Automated Exfiltration (T1020) with moderate to high confidence (80%), with evidence including prioritized files using Spotify’s popularity metrics, and distributed in stages to avoid overwhelming servers. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Subvert Trust Controls: Install Root Certificate (T1553.004) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating bypassed digital rights management (DRM) and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating illicit tactics to bypass DRM (implied account misuse). Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Cloud Storage (T1530) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including extracted Spotify’s entire music catalog, and 86 million audio files and 256M metadata rows. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.