Comment by cj
2 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?
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.