Spotify down for thousands of users. Company denies it's been hacked.

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Spotify is experiencing method issues, with thousands of users reporting trouble accessing the euphony streaming platform.

Data from Downdetector.com, which tracks app outages successful existent time, shows that implicit 48,000 radical reported problems with Spotify Wednesday morning. The outage, which mostly affected Spotify's app arsenic good arsenic its audio streaming services and website, deed users crossed the U.S. and parts of Europe, according to the BBC.

Spotify said connected societal media that the institution is moving to code the problem, portion a spokesperson for the streaming euphony institution denied the outage was caused by hackers. 

"We are alert of the outage and moving to resoluteness it arsenic soon arsenic possible," the spokesperson told CBS MoneyWatch successful an email, referring customers to its @SpotifyStatus relationship connected X for updates. "The reports of this being a information hack are wholly inaccurate." 

Disgruntled Spotify users took to societal media Wednesday to aerial their frustration. "Messing with my greeting man!!," 1 idiosyncratic wrote.

By precocious Wednesday morning, immoderate customers appeared to beryllium up and moving again, portion others were inactive moving into issues. On X, immoderate users documented a assortment of issues, with immoderate saying they couldn't perceive to euphony astatine each and others reporting glitches portion playing songs. 

The euphony streaming service, which launched successful 2008, has implicit than 675 cardinal users.

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