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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