{"id":1775,"date":"2026-04-20T15:17:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:17:33","slug":"soundcloud-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/soundcloud-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"SoundCloud Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday I had a scam email sent via the address I only use for SoundCloud so I went searching and found >> <a href=\"https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/Breach\/SoundCloud\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/haveibeenpwned.com\/Breach\/SoundCloud\">this<\/a> &lt;&lt; piece of information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried to reach out to them to find out why I wasn&#8217;t informed that my personal details were in that breach so I could take appropriate actions before crap like this happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enter the AI Chatbot Otto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was an absolute nightmare trying to get it to put me through to the right place and I&#8217;m still not sure I was successful. I was supposed to get an email with a support ticket number but nothing so I chased it up today; it&#8217;s apparently still open awaiting an actual human to look into it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime I&#8217;m going to host my meagre 6 tracks here and this site will now host any future music from me if I ever get the whim to create any more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have already changed the email address associated with my account and deleted the old one so it&#8217;s now invalid but if they don&#8217;t give me a satisfactory response I shall simply delete my account there and be done with it. Mistakes are made but not actually informing their users of the breach is not a mistake, it&#8217;s at best incompetence and at worse deliberate concealment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had a scam email sent via the address I only use for SoundCloud so I went searching and found >> this &lt;&lt; piece of information. I&#8217;ve tried to reach out to them to find out why I wasn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/soundcloud-breach\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-negatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1776,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions\/1776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.colinjones.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}