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I'm confused, where were scrapers/data brokers/Zoominfo etc. were getting email addresses for SoundCloud accounts?
by refulgentis 9mo ago
I'm confused, where were scrapers/data brokers/Zoominfo etc. were getting email addresses for SoundCloud accounts?
- cj 9mo agoThey don’t. I’m confused why that info is valuable.
- saaaaaam 9mo agoPeople pitching scammy “I can make you famous” services to aspiring musicians. Happens all the time, there’s a whole industry dedicated to it.
- refulgentis 9mo agoLet's say you have a $SOCIETAL_TABOO streak and let it out via a soundcloud account that isn't identifiable as you without your email. Now it is. Now I can blackmail you or haunt you. (I'm sure there's other examples, tl;dr people are deanonymized, there are uncountable reasons why people choose anonymity) > The data in the leak (other than follower count, etc) was already available for purchase from Zoominfo, 8sense, or a variety of other data brokers or other legal marketplaces for PII. ?