Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

haveibeenpwned.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 113 posts

Re: SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

#11

Post by throwaway431234 »

PunchyHamster wrote: post #8
throwaway431234 wrote: post #3

SoundCloud is the worst company, so hostile to former paying users! I am a hobbyist songwriter and have posted my rough mixes (Apple's Music Memo app which adds drum and bass automagically with two clicks & then mix it in Garage Band) on my SoundCloud for more then ten years. I signed up for their Artist Pro account and was a member for of such consistently for a few years at $17 a month. Once you cancel they then ho…

that just sounds like customer not paying for service not getting the service

They first hide your songs and as time goes on they start threaten to delete your songs if you dont pay

Re: SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

#12

Post by colordrops »

throwaway431234 wrote: post #11
PunchyHamster wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that just sounds like customer not paying for service not getting the service

They first hide your songs and as time goes on they start threaten to delete your songs if you dont pay

What should they do instead? spend money continuously holding your music on disk forever even though you aren't paying them for the service? Sounds like they are being cool about it by keeping it around for a while and warning you before deleting it.

Re: SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

#13

Post by embedding-shape »

Alifatisk wrote: post #2

> the impacted data included 30M unique email addresses, names, usernames, avatars, follower and following counts and, in some cases, the user’s country

Importantly, 20% of the total userbase it seems:

> In December 2025, SoundCloud announced it had discovered unauthorised activity on its platform. The incident allowed an attacker to map publicly available SoundCloud profile data to email addresses for approximately 20% of its users. The impacted data included 30M unique email addresses, names, usernames, avatars, follower and following counts and, in some cases, the user’s country.

That's from the haveibeenpwned email which I received because of course I'm part of that 20%.

Remember to have unique passwords for each website kids, ideally with a password manager.

Re: SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

#14

Post by direwolf20 »

throwaway431234 wrote: post #3

SoundCloud is the worst company, so hostile to former paying users! I am a hobbyist songwriter and have posted my rough mixes (Apple's Music Memo app which adds drum and bass automagically with two clicks & then mix it in Garage Band) on my SoundCloud for more then ten years. I signed up for their Artist Pro account and was a member for of such consistently for a few years at $17 a month. Once you cancel they then ho…

A former paying user is not a customer. If you don't pay, why should you receive service? I buy a pizza at this pizza shop every week, but I still don't get free ones.

SoundCloud is European, so most of the dark patterns used by American companies to offer "free" service are not available to them, and they are required by law to actually delete data instead of pretending to delete it.

Re: SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

#15

Post by hombre_fatal »

throwaway431234 wrote: post #3

SoundCloud is the worst company, so hostile to former paying users! I am a hobbyist songwriter and have posted my rough mixes (Apple's Music Memo app which adds drum and bass automagically with two clicks & then mix it in Garage Band) on my SoundCloud for more then ten years. I signed up for their Artist Pro account and was a member for of such consistently for a few years at $17 a month. Once you cancel they then ho…

The difference between Artist vs Pro is three hours vs unlimited uploaded music.

So if you had over three hours uploaded, it seems reasonable for them to restrict the service. If you had <= three, then it would a problem.

Re: SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

#17

Post by dylan604 »

crazybonkersai wrote: post #5
throwaway431234 wrote: post #3

SoundCloud is the worst company, so hostile to former paying users! I am a hobbyist songwriter and have posted my rough mixes (Apple's Music Memo app which adds drum and bass automagically with two clicks & then mix it in Garage Band) on my SoundCloud for more then ten years. I signed up for their Artist Pro account and was a member for of such consistently for a few years at $17 a month. Once you cancel they then ho…

You can export your entire profile using yt-dlp. Of course you have to do it, when you are still a paying customer.

Why would someone that writes their own songs, mixes in GarageBand, uploads to a 3rd party website need to use yt-dlp to get back the files that they themselves made?

Yes, I'm intentionally victim blaming here. The victim is complaining about a 3rd party site deleting files. Who cares? Why would you have as your only source of your files the copies stored by the 3rd party?

Re: SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

#18

Post by jacquesm »

loganc2342 wrote: post #4
Alifatisk wrote: post #2

> the impacted data included 30M unique email addresses, names, usernames, avatars, follower and following counts and, in some cases, the user’s country

If I’m understanding correctly, it sounds like, aside from the email addresses, all the data leaked was already publicly available on users’ SoundCloud profiles. The only novel aspect is linking that public data to the accounts’ email addresses.

That step makes a big difference though.

Re: SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

#19

Post by jacquesm »

throwaway431234 wrote: post #3

SoundCloud is the worst company, so hostile to former paying users! I am a hobbyist songwriter and have posted my rough mixes (Apple's Music Memo app which adds drum and bass automagically with two clicks & then mix it in Garage Band) on my SoundCloud for more then ten years. I signed up for their Artist Pro account and was a member for of such consistently for a few years at $17 a month. Once you cancel they then ho…

You mean you never kept your originals but just uploaded and deleted the masters?
Post reply on HN