On December 15, 2025, the German audio streaming service, SoundCloud (soundcloud.com) suffered a data breach caused by the @ShinyHunters group, resulting in the compromise of around 30 million users. When SoundCloud failed to meet the ransom demands within the given deadline, the group released the data on January 23, 2026.
This dataset contains the original user data that was stolen and is 30 GB in size when decompressed (~2.5 GB compressed). It includes around 29,783,167 unique email addresses and a total of 29,892,459 records. The compromised data includes full names, usernames, email addresses, geographic locations, profile descriptions, avatars,
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