Spotify is dealing with a major breach after activist group Anna’s Archive claimed to have uploaded almost all of the platform’s music library online for free, including hundreds of terabytes of tracks and metadata scraped from the service.

A pirate group hoping to preserve the world's music has made an audacious swipe at Spotify's 285 million library of songs

Spotify says it disabled accounts after an activist group claimed to leak nearly its entire music library in a 300TB piracy dump.

With its extensive music library and user-friendly interface, Spotify is the world's most popular music streaming service, boasting over 713 million active monthly users. However, despite its massive popularity,

Hackers say they’ve scraped Spotify’s entire music library – compiling the metadata behind 256 million tracks tied to over 15.4 million artist profiles – and intend to make a massive amount of music available to torrent.