A group identifying itself with Anna’s Archive, a well-known shadow library collective, posted that it had scraped Spotify’s music database and is distributing it via peer-to-peer torrent files totalling around 300 terabytes of data. The archive reportedly contains about 256 million rows of track metadata and roughly 86 million audio files from Spotify’s catalog. Spotify has confirmed there was unauthorized access to its platform, saying a third party scraped public metadata and used methods that circumvented some digital rights management protections to access audio files. The company says it has disabled the accounts involved and is actively investigating and mitigating the incident. Anna’s Archive describes the operation as a “music preservation archive,” saying streaming platforms are vulnerable and that preserving cultural material outside corporate control is valuable. They have already released the metadata and intend to roll out the audio files in stages via torrents. The activist group claims the scraped data covers a very large share of the listening activity on Spotify (reportedly about 99.6 percent of streams), but Spotify’s library is larger than 86 million tracks. The company’s official comments and reporting suggest the breach does not necessarily include every single file and the incident is still being evaluated.