Re:Someone hijacked Spotify's Share-to-Instagram asset for a...
by ermis on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @11:14AM
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I was sharing an old Turkish pop track on Spotify (“Füsun Önal – Ah Nerede”, 2004). Instead of the expected album art, Instagram showed a completely unrelated person’s Instagram profile screenshot, basically a silent injected ad.
I dug into how Spotify generates Instagram story assets and mapped possible attack vectors in the legacy catalog pipeline. Curious if anyone’s seen similar behavior with older metadata ingestion paths.
I dug into how Spotify generates Instagram story assets and mapped possible attack vectors in the legacy catalog pipeline. Curious if anyone’s seen similar behavior with older metadata ingestion paths.