The Great Celebrity Spotify Playlist Hack

The Great Celebrity Spotify Playlist Hack

The playlists of dozens of high-level government officials and tech executives were suddenly broadcast to the world on a website called “the Panama Playlists.” But the information wasn’t taken by sophisticated hackers infiltrating any mainframes—it was all already publicly available.


Guest: Mike Isaac, New York Times Silicon Valley correspondent.


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