Comment by cj
4 hours ago
But, why care? (Yes, we can “care” that there was a leak - but… why worry? what new risk exists today that didn’t yesterday?)
The data in the leak (other than follower count, etc) was already available for purchase from Zoominfo, 8sense, or a variety of other data brokers or other legal marketplaces for PII.
I suppose the risk now is that the data is freely available and no longer behind a data broker’s paywall?
Isn't that a huge GDPR violation?
I'm confused, where were scrapers/data brokers/Zoominfo etc. were getting email addresses for SoundCloud accounts?
They don’t. I’m confused why that info is valuable.
People pitching scammy “I can make you famous” services to aspiring musicians. Happens all the time, there’s a whole industry dedicated to it.
Let's say you have a $SOCIETAL_TABOO streak and let it out via a soundcloud account that isn't identifiable as you without your email.
Now it is.
Now I can blackmail you or haunt you.
(I'm sure there's other examples, tl;dr people are deanonymized, there are uncountable reasons why people choose anonymity)
> The data in the leak (other than follower count, etc) was already available for purchase from Zoominfo, 8sense, or a variety of other data brokers or other legal marketplaces for PII.
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