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Re:“Subject: Urgent Warning” by mattlutze on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @09:56AM (#10931115)
Lest Stenberg get tangled up too much in the email-sender's unfortunately troubles, he should likely refer the emailer to Instagram and Spotify's customer support.

As an aside, hopefully someone can recommend to the emailer as well to use a different service to host high-quality versions of her photography so that potential clients can evaluate critical clarity in her technique. I'm not sure I'd want to rely on Instagram as the sole example of my work, but, maybe she's targeting a different clientele that I'm imagining.

As an aside (#2), who hacks Spotify accounts?

Re:“Subject: Urgent Warning” by LeonM on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @10:03AM (#10931173)
> As an aside (#2), who hacks Spotify accounts?

My first guess when reading the article is that her Facebook account is compromised and that she uses facebook login for both spotify and instagram.

Re:“Subject: Urgent Warning” by JBReefer on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @12:54PM (#10932412)
That makes a great deal of sense, as there's no obvious benefit to the data you would get from a compromised Spotify.

Older people also use the word "hacked" to mean a too-wide set of things, from "broken" to "locked out" to actually owned.

Re:“Subject: Urgent Warning” by matthucke on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @11:09AM (#10931586)
Instagram is an unfortunate necessity for pro photographers in certain fields, such as weddings, simply because that's where the potential customers begin their search. They're not photo enthusiasts, they've never heard of Flickr or 500px, they don't know what clarity and composition are... but they want someone to shoot their wedding, and in their minds Instagram equals photo sharing.
Re:“Subject: Urgent Warning” by kolinko on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @10:39AM (#10931408)
Spotify has a messaging system, so it might be the same reason as with the other messaging systems. To send spam or scam.