SoundCloud Data Breach Exposes 30 Million User Email Addresses in December 2025 Incident
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Summary
SoundCloud experienced a data breach in December 2025 where attackers mapped publicly available profile data to email addresses for approximately 20% of users, affecting 30 million unique email addresses. The compromised data included names, usernames, avatars, follower/following counts, and sometimes country information. After attempting to extort SoundCloud, the attackers publicly released the data the following month.
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The incident allowed an attacker to map publicly available SoundCloud profile data to email addresses for approximately 20% of its users.
The impacted data included 30M unique email addresses, names, usernames, avatars, follower and following counts and, in some cases, the user's country.
The attackers later attempted to extort SoundCloud before publicly releasing the data the following month.
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