No, SoundCloud hasn’t started tuning out VPNs. It’s mopping up after a cyberattack

Music hosting and streaming service SoundCloud has admitted it suffered a cyberattack.

“SoundCloud recently detected unauthorized activity in an ancillary service dashboard,” opens a Monday post from the company. “Upon making this discovery, we immediately activated our incident response protocols and promptly contained the activity. We also engaged leading third-party cybersecurity experts to assist in a thorough investigation and response.”

Not long after SoundCloud and its hired help contained the incident, the site became the subject of multiple denial of service attacks.

Two of those unwelcome traffic torrents “were able to temporarily disable our platform's availability on the web only,” the company’s post states.

SoundCloud repelled the DDOS attacks, investigated the matter and learned “a purported threat actor group accessed certain limited data that we hold.” SoundCloud says none of the data was sensitive – which it defines as financial or password data – and that attackers were able to ...