Soundwave Data Breach

What happened?

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.

When did it happen?

The breach date in the public record is July 16, 2015. The record was added to the catalogue on March 17, 2017 and last updated there on March 17, 2017.

What information was reported as exposed?

• Dates of birth
• Email addresses
• Genders
• Geographic locations
• Names
• Passwords
• Social connections

These are incident-level categories. The record does not prove that every category was exposed for every affected person.

Who may be affected?

This record may be relevant to people who had an account or other relationship with Soundwave or used soundwave.com around July 16, 2015. A catalogue entry does not establish that every customer was affected or that every listed data category applied to each person. Compare the record with an official notice addressed to you.

What should you do?

Choose actions that match the information involved. If you find signs that someone is using your identity, the Federal Trade Commission provides a personal recovery plan at IdentityTheft.gov.