SoundCloud Data Breach Exposes 30M Accounts As Extortion Gang Dumps Stolen Data

SoundCloud, best known as a home to indie musicians including the popular "SoundClown" comedy remixers, has been hit with a major data breach that includes the avatars, email addresses, names, usernames, locations, and profile statistics of nearly 30 million (29.8 million) accounts. This breach follows demands from an extortion group that has now made good on its threat to dump the stolen information.

The breach, apparently performed by the black hat gang ShinyHunters, was confirmed by the platform itself; in a statement to BleepingComputer, SoundCloud stated that "We understand that a purported threat actor group accessed certain limited data that we hold. We have completed an investigation into the data that was impacted, and no sensitive data (such as financial or password data) has been accessed. The data involved consisted only of email addresses and information already visible on public SoundCloud profiles." The scale of the attack apparently impacted ...