Spotify down for thousands of users worldwide | Technology

The audio streaming giant denies allegations of a security breach.

Audio streaming giant Spotify appears to be experiencing widespread technical issues affecting thousands of customers worldwide.

As of around 10:45am on the US East Coast (14:45 GMT) on Wednesday, Downdetector showed more than 20,000 outage reports for Spotify worldwide. That’s a decrease from earlier today when the outage peaked at more than 48,000.

Users said they were having difficulty loading both the app and website,…