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?

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refulgentis 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I'm confused, where were scrapers/data brokers/Zoominfo etc. were getting email addresses for SoundCloud accounts?

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cj 4 hours ago | parent [-]

They don’t. I’m confused why that info is valuable.

	▲	saaaaaam 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		People pitching scammy “I can make you famous” services to aspiring musicians. Happens all the time, there’s a whole industry dedicated to it.
	▲	refulgentis an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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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direwolf20 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Isn't that a huge GDPR violation?