April 16 (UPI) -- A Spotify outage Wednesday affected more than 48,000 users starting at 6:20 a.m. EDT. Users had problems accessing the streaming music app. According to Downdetecter, at the peak of the disruption almost 50,000 Spotify users reported the outage , which also affected British and some European customers. Spotify denied that it was hacked with a post on X at 10:39 a.m. telling users the company was aware of the outages and, "The reports of this being a securty hack are false ."