Data breaches → SoundCloud
Was your data in the SoundCloud breach?
2025 · soundcloud.com · ~29,815,722 accounts exposedHigh severity · 6/10
SoundCloud (soundcloud.com) suffered a data breach in 2025 that exposed around 29,815,722 accounts. If you had an account, some of your personal data may be circulating in leaked databases. The fastest way to know is to check your own email — free, in about 30 seconds, no password required.
What happened
In December 2025, SoundCloud announced it had discovered unauthorised activity on its platform. 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.
Breach details sourced from Have I Been Pwned, the industry-standard breach database. Risk analysis by Nullivo.
What was exposed, and why it matters
Not all breaches carry the same risk — what matters is which fields leaked. Here is what the SoundCloud breach exposed and what each item actually enables:
Reveals where you live, work or travel, which supports both targeted scams and physical-safety risks.
Links this leak to your other accounts — a reused username lets anyone build a profile of you across platforms.
Puts you on spam and phishing lists, and confirms to attackers that you hold an account with this service — which makes impersonation emails more believable.
Also listed in this breach: Avatars, Email addresses, Geographic locations, Names, Profile statistics, Usernames.
What to do if you were affected
These steps are ordered for this specific breach — the most urgent action given what leaked comes first.
- Location data: Review location sharing on the accounts you still hold with this service.
- Names and usernames: Search your usual username to see what else it exposes, and use distinct handles for sensitive accounts.
- Email addresses: Treat any message referencing this service with suspicion, and never act on links in unexpected emails.
- Check whether your own email appears in this breach — run a free scan to confirm before you spend time on the steps above.
How urgent is this now?
This breach is recent, so the data is actively traded and the risk is at its highest right now.
Remember: a breach can't be "un-leaked" — once a database is out, it exists in countless copies. The goal is to make the leaked data useless: change what can be changed, lock down what can't, and remove what has been republished.
Frequently asked questions
What data was exposed in the SoundCloud breach?
The SoundCloud breach exposed location data, names and usernames, email addresses. Reveals where you live, work or travel, which supports both targeted scams and physical-safety risks.
How many people were affected by the SoundCloud breach?
Around 29,815,722 accounts were exposed, making it a very large breach by any measure.
What should I do if I had a SoundCloud account?
Review location sharing on the accounts you still hold with this service. You can check whether your own email appears in this breach with a free Nullivo scan — no password required.
Breaches that exposed similar data
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