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2019
Mixcloud user data exposed in breach
Issue disclosure
A data breach at Mixcloud exposed more than 20 million user accounts; the data was put up for sale on the dark web. The exact amount stolen was not known, and the sampled dataset suggested there may have been as many as 22 million records.
Source excerpt
A data breach at Mixcloud, a U.K.-based audio streaming platform, has left more than 20 million user accounts exposed after the data was put on sale on the dark web.
The exact amount of data stolen isn’t known.
The data breach happened earlier in November, according to a dark web seller who supplied a portion of the data to TechCrunch, allowing us to examine and verify the authenticity of the data.