Spotify 'back and functioning normally' after global outage

Spotify 'back and functioning normally' after global outage Downdetector, which tracks problems with online services, showed 20,000 people reported Spotify was not working at around 13:30 GMT Wednesday. Spotify has not explained what caused the problems, but it had earlier said reports of a "security hack" were "completely inaccurate". The firm said the the platform was now "back up and functioning normally". Spotify says it has fixed an outage that left tens of thousands users around the world unable to stream music on the app. Spotify says it has more than 675 million users worldwide. During the outage users reported they were still able to play music they had downloaded onto their device, however they were unable to view artists or use the search function on the app. After trying to search for music, the app appeared to time out and displayed a message reading "something went wrong" with a refresh button. "We're aware of some issues right now and are checking them out," the ... Read full article.