SoundCloud Confirms Breach After Member Data Stolen, VPN Access Disrupted (bleepingcomputer.com)
(Tuesday December 16, 2025 @11:40AM (BeauHD)
from the another-day-another-breach dept.)
- Reference: 0180394185
- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/12/16/0351247/soundcloud-confirms-breach-after-member-data-stolen-vpn-access-disrupted
- Source link: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/soundcloud-confirms-breach-after-member-data-stolen-vpn-access-disrupted/
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer:
> Audio streaming platform SoundCloud has confirmed that outages and VPN connection issues over the past few days were [1]caused by a security breach in which threat actors stole a database containing user information . The disclosure follows widespread reports over the past four days from users who were unable to access SoundCloud when connecting via VPN, with attempts resulting in the site displaying 403 "forbidden" errors.
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> In a statement shared with BleepingComputer, SoundCloud said it recently detected unauthorized activity involving an ancillary service dashboard and activated its incident response procedures. SoundCloud acknowledged that a threat actor accessed some of its data but said the exposure was limited in scope. [...] BleepingComputer has learned that the breach affects 20% of SoundCloud's users, which, based on publicly reported user figures, could impact roughly 28 million accounts. The company said it is confident that all unauthorized access to SoundCloud systems has been blocked and that there is no ongoing risk to the platform.
"We understand that a purported threat actor group accessed certain limited data that we hold," SoundCloud told BleepingComputer. "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."
[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/soundcloud-confirms-breach-after-member-data-stolen-vpn-access-disrupted/
> Audio streaming platform SoundCloud has confirmed that outages and VPN connection issues over the past few days were [1]caused by a security breach in which threat actors stole a database containing user information . The disclosure follows widespread reports over the past four days from users who were unable to access SoundCloud when connecting via VPN, with attempts resulting in the site displaying 403 "forbidden" errors.
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> In a statement shared with BleepingComputer, SoundCloud said it recently detected unauthorized activity involving an ancillary service dashboard and activated its incident response procedures. SoundCloud acknowledged that a threat actor accessed some of its data but said the exposure was limited in scope. [...] BleepingComputer has learned that the breach affects 20% of SoundCloud's users, which, based on publicly reported user figures, could impact roughly 28 million accounts. The company said it is confident that all unauthorized access to SoundCloud systems has been blocked and that there is no ongoing risk to the platform.
"We understand that a purported threat actor group accessed certain limited data that we hold," SoundCloud told BleepingComputer. "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."
[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/soundcloud-confirms-breach-after-member-data-stolen-vpn-access-disrupted/
My Record Collection Will Never Betray Me (Score:4, Insightful)
Anything on-cloud or in-computer can be hacked, your secrets revealed and exploited. Even music.
My record collection will never betray me. Will never spill my secrets, my data.
We gave up freedom for convenience, as a society.
But, you simply can't beat a house stuffed full of books, records and video media. No matter how slick it is that you can carry all that in your pocket.
The words in the books cannot be changed, their purchase data long lost to time. They are of no value but to me, and anyone i pass them on to.
Doesn't even have to be vinyl or CD (Score:2)
I've got thousands of tracks on a USB stick. Can plug it into the laptop or streamer. Unfortunately modern cars won't recognise a stick for [reasons].
Re: (Score:2)
> Anything on-cloud or in-computer can be hacked, your secrets revealed and exploited. Even music.
> My record collection will never betray me. Will never spill my secrets, my data.
> We gave up freedom for convenience, as a society.
> But, you simply can't beat a house stuffed full of books, records and video media. No matter how slick it is that you can carry all that in your pocket.
> The words in the books cannot be changed, their purchase data long lost to time. They are of no value but to me, and anyone i pass them on to.
Some of us have used soundcloud to post our own creations and gather listeners over the years. Granted, I haven't done that in about a decade at this point. My, how time flies.