TL;DR
- Spotify suffered an hours-long outage last Tuesday, May 12.
- After service was restored, pro-Iranian hacker group the 313 Team claimed responsibility.
- The group says the DDoS attack was revenge for the US assassinating Iranian ruler Ali Khamenei.
Last Tuesday, music fans looking for a little entertainment to get them though the afternoon ran into a slight hiccup: Spotify was suddenly unusable for many users. It took a few hours, but eventually the company was able to restore service later that day. On its own, that wouldn’t be particularly noteworthy; outages happen all the time. But as it turns out, this outage may have been the directly result of political activism.
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