Soundwave 2015 Data Breach

Soundwave Music Discovery App Breach (2015): 131K User Accounts Including Passwords Exposed

Platform · Music tracking and social listening services · Music tracking social app · Global

Soundwave Music Discovery App Breach (2015): 131K User Accounts Including Passwords Exposed

* defunct music tracking/social app; historical platform without a clear enduring consumer domain

Confirmed · ObscureIQ Intelligence
Breach Risk Index i
8/100
Lower riskHigher risk
Lower: limited current risk based on data value and recency.
Data Sensitivity i
Standard
Exposed data is largely lower-sensitivity. Standard identity-protection precautions are advised.
131KRecords
2015Year

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Classification Tags
EntertainmentMusicUsers2015

Breach Summary

In mid-2015, the music-tracking app Soundwave suffered a data breach exposing about 130,000 records including email addresses, dates of birth, genders, and passwords stored as unsalted MD5 hashes.

Full threat analysis, exploitation vectors, and principal guidance below.

9 additional sections · verified field analysis · defensive doctrine

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131K records analyzed

About Soundwave

Soundwave was a music-tracking mobile app.

Why They Hold Your Data

Defunct music tracking and social listening app centered on user accounts, listening activity, and socially visible music engagement. The likely data context includes account records, credentials, profile information, and behavioral data tied to music consumption or social sharing.

Data Points Exposed

7 verified field types
Date of Birth High
Email Address
Full Name
Gender
Geographic location
Password High
Social Graph

Breach Impact

Unsalted MD5 is readily cracked, exposing reused credentials; DOB adds profiling value.

Exploitation & Downstream Threats

• 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

Principal Risk Advisory

What this means for a principal

A consumer-service breach: contact and account data supports phishing, account takeover and profile enrichment. For a high-profile principal the main risk is credible impersonation and enrichment of existing exposure.

What You Should Do

  1. Reset any reused passwords and enable MFA on email first, then financial accounts.
  2. Do not use unofficial 'am I affected' lookups; several are themselves harvesting operations.

How ObscureIQ Can Help

  1. Corpus confirmation: determine whether and where the principal (plus household and staff) appear in this dataset and which specific fields are exposed for them.
  2. Exposure mapping: cross-reference the exposed identifiers against broker-available data to size and prioritize the principal's wider footprint.
  3. ThreatWatch tuned to this incident's identifiers and misuse pattern (impersonation and targeting patterns, not generic credential monitoring).

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