SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned

"The data involved consisted only of email addresses and information already visible on public SoundCloud profiles".

So they've scraped public data. Why care?

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

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

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 hold all your music hostage by hiding it and later threat to delete it. Horrid!

Kinda sad to see a "Recommended Actions", with only sponsors, with ad copy that would be understood by HN readers but not our non-technical friends. (i.e. a simple "Nothing. No passwords have been leaked yet, only metadata" in this case)

By aggregating breach data by email, this tool inadvertently exposes users's full web history, including sensitive sites like crypto/adult/dating platforms, to anyone who knows their address

Fun

all this leaked data pretty much used for one objective now: stealing crypto