{"id":227166,"date":"2025-12-16T01:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/soundcloud-confirms-breach-after-member-data-stolen-vpn-access-disrupted"},"modified":"2025-12-16T01:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T07:33:08","slug":"soundcloud-confirms-breach-after-member-data-stolen-vpn-access-disrupted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/soundcloud-confirms-breach-after-member-data-stolen-vpn-access-disrupted","title":{"rendered":"SoundCloud confirms breach after member data stolen, VPN access disrupted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/soundcloud-confirms-breach-after-member-data-stolen-vpn-access-disrupted2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Audio streaming platform SoundCloud has confirmed that outages and VPN connection issues over the past few days were caused by a security breach in which threat actors stole a database exposing users\u2019 email addresses and profile information.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/ongoing-soundcloud-issue-blocks-vpn-users-with-403-server-error\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">widespread reports<\/a> over the past four days from users who were unable to access SoundCloud when connecting via VPN, with attempts resulting in the site displaying 403 \u201cforbidden\u201d errors.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement shared with BleepingComputer, SoundCloud said it recently detected unauthorized activity involving an ancillary service dashboard and activated its incident response procedures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audio streaming platform SoundCloud has confirmed that outages and VPN connection issues over the past few days were caused by a security breach in which threat actors stole a database exposing users\u2019 email addresses and profile information. The disclosure follows widespread reports over the past four days from users who were unable to access SoundCloud [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}