Impact & Downstream Threats
This breach carries high risk due to the nature of exposed data fields and the scale of affected records.
- Credential stuffing against reused passwords across other platforms
- Identity verification bypass using name + date of birth combination
- Targeted phishing campaigns using exposed email addresses
- Doxxing risk from physical address exposure
Breach Intelligence
Executive Summary
In approximately mid 2015, the music tracking app Soundwave suffered a data breach. The breach stemmed from an incident whereby "production data had been used to populate the test database" and was then inadvertently exposed in a MongoDB. The data contained 130k records and included email addresses, dates of birth, genders and MD5 hashes of passwords without a salt.
About Soundwave
Soundwave is an organization whose data was exposed in this breach. The dataset has been verified by ObscureIQ intelligence and indexed across breach notification platforms.
Data Points Exposed
Dark Web Verification
Status: Confirmed
- Dataset containing approximately 131K records identified in breach intelligence sources.
- The data is indexed and searchable across breach notification platforms.
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Frequently Asked Questions
In July 2015, Soundwave experienced a data breach that exposed approximately 131K records containing personal information.
The exposed data includes fields such as date of birth, email address, full name, gender, geographic locations.
Approximately 131K records were affected based on current breach intelligence.
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- A customer of Soundwave
- Or concerned about credential reuse
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