Tidal looking into possible data breach as it denies inflating Beyonce & Kanye West stream...
Troubled music service Tidal is hiring a third-party security firm to investigate a possible data breach, amid accusations it inflated streaming figures for albums by Beyonce and Kanye West.
"We reject and deny the claims that have been made by Dagens Naeringsliv," said Tidal CEO Richard Sanders, referring to the Norwegian publication that has made multiple allegations, including that the service is behind on royalty payments.
"Although we do not typically comment on stories we believe to be false, we feel it is important to make sure that our artists, employees, and subscribers know that we are not taking the security and integrity of our data lightly, and we will not back down from our commitment to them," Music Business Worldwide quoted Sanders as saying.
The executive said that the company has pursued "multiple avenues" into investigating a possible breach, including "reporting it to proper authorities, pursuing legal action, and proactively taking steps to further strengthen our stringent security measures that are already in place."
In making its inflation accusations, DN said it had conducted a year-long investigation, and relied on forensic analysis of a hard drive with raw data from Tidal. In response Tidal accused the publication of running a "smear campaign" with "stolen and manipulated" data.
Blowback from the scandal has seen Norwegian royalty collection group Tono launch a police complaint, and one in Denmark start an audit of Tidal figures.
While Tidal has the backing of famous artists like Jay-Z -- to whom Beyonce is married -- the company has struggled to draw in subscribers. Spotify is deeply entrenched, having launched in 2008 and become the "default" on-demand service for many labels, thanks to 75 million paid subscribers and even more people on its free ad-based tier.
Apple Music recently topped 50 million subscribers, aided by Apple's cash and deep integration across iPhones and other devices. There is no free option for the service after a three-month trial.
"We reject and deny the claims that have been made by Dagens Naeringsliv," said Tidal CEO Richard Sanders, referring to the Norwegian publication that has made multiple allegations, including that the service is behind on royalty payments.
"Although we do not typically comment on stories we believe to be false, we feel it is important to make sure that our artists, employees, and subscribers know that we are not taking the security and integrity of our data lightly, and we will not back down from our commitment to them," Music Business Worldwide quoted Sanders as saying.
The executive said that the company has pursued "multiple avenues" into investigating a possible breach, including "reporting it to proper authorities, pursuing legal action, and proactively taking steps to further strengthen our stringent security measures that are already in place."
In making its inflation accusations, DN said it had conducted a year-long investigation, and relied on forensic analysis of a hard drive with raw data from Tidal. In response Tidal accused the publication of running a "smear campaign" with "stolen and manipulated" data.
Blowback from the scandal has seen Norwegian royalty collection group Tono launch a police complaint, and one in Denmark start an audit of Tidal figures.
While Tidal has the backing of famous artists like Jay-Z -- to whom Beyonce is married -- the company has struggled to draw in subscribers. Spotify is deeply entrenched, having launched in 2008 and become the "default" on-demand service for many labels, thanks to 75 million paid subscribers and even more people on its free ad-based tier.
Apple Music recently topped 50 million subscribers, aided by Apple's cash and deep integration across iPhones and other devices. There is no free option for the service after a three-month trial.
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I don't feel it's the best term for Tidal. When I think something is beleaguered I feel like it was well established and successful before it was best with difficulties. Tidal has still always felt like it was in start up mode without every having its head above the water. I'm not even sure I'd use it for a well and long established service like SiriusXM that owns their market.
whoa. Talk about money pit.
Invest invest invest with no return.
Must be a a matter of not wanting to admit failure.
And lets be real here. Tidal is a failure of epic proportions.
The way that guy guy and his company went after Apple like they were something cool and Apple was somehow the definition of all that’s wrong with the world... the audacity makes it hard to look humble after (anyone remember their “Apple is interfering with artistry” public statement when they tried and failed to pirate an Apple contracted stream with Drake?) must be hard to eat that crow.
Its hard to take them seriously at all.
And the comment sbout not commenting on stories stories they believe to be false, yet they themselves author falsehoods all the time is pure potty humor.
2. A lot of encryption is based on the fact that right now brute forcing the encryption is not possible, because you do not have enough computational power to do that in a million years. A.I. offers nothing to solve this problem, as it can't increase the speed of computation, nor can it offer some kind of shortcut to remove the complexity of the encryption, without removing the alg from use,
2) I can see AI being used to go beyond a typical brute force attack and intelligently derive data about a user to help determine what their passwords may be (or may not be) which could drastically reduce the number of options needed so that computational power for a brute attack becomes less relevant.
And three of them were admin accounts..