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Re: SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

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Post by forgotaccount3 »

djee wrote: post #20

"The data involved consisted only of email addresses and information already visible on public SoundCloud profiles". So they've scraped public data. Why care?

Maybe the two public data points weren't connected before?

I don't use SoundCloud, but if profiles didn't have contact information like Email Address on them then it could be meaningful to now connect those two dots.

Like, 'Hey look, Person A, who is known to use email address X, kept Lost Prophets as one of their liked artists even after 2013!'

Re: SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

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Post by direwolf20 »

dylan604 wrote: post #17
crazybonkersai wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Not only that, the victim is complaining about a paid file storage company deleting the files when the victim stops paying

Re: SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

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Post by giancarlostoro »

TechSquidTV wrote: post #23

A lot of "rap gods" are about to be exposed as "Kevin" from suburbia.

Lil B is probably fine, but he is the biggest name I recall coming out of SoundCloud. He blew up all over the 2010s, he was the Kanye of Cloudrap too because he took dressing styles and changed it all up similar to Kanye.

Re: SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

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Post by technion »

embedding-shape wrote: post #13
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…

Whilst thats important advice, as far as I can tell it wouldnt help here as no passwords are breached. I had a few of our domain users on this report and as far as I can tell theres nothing actionable.

Re: SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

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Post by Scoundreller »

direwolf20 wrote: post #14
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.

> I buy a pizza at this pizza shop every week, but I still don't get free ones.

Do they take the leftovers from your fridge when you stop buying?

Re: SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

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Post by internetter »

Scoundreller wrote: post #27
direwolf20 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> I buy a pizza at this pizza shop every week, but I still don't get free ones. Do they take the leftovers from your fridge when you stop buying?

The analogy was bad. You're effectively renting space in their fridge. In that case, absolutely.

Re: SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

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Post by sam1r »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #25
TechSquidTV wrote: post #23

A lot of "rap gods" are about to be exposed as "Kevin" from suburbia.

Lil B is probably fine, but he is the biggest name I recall coming out of SoundCloud. He blew up all over the 2010s, he was the Kanye of Cloudrap too because he took dressing styles and changed it all up similar to Kanye.

Shout out to lil b and those parties at Berkeley he would perform at in ‘12, ‘13.

Those were the golden sound cloud years.

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