I’ve been hosting my original music (as AFK) on SoundCloud for well over a decade, almost two in fact.
For years, people have been trying to buy this page off of me, trying to have my password changed, and more recently, they’ve been successful in fooling SoundCloud’s support team to change the email address associated with the account and then deleting the account, no doubt to try and sell it on a marketplace or assign it to a bot and use its longevity to lend credibility to some marketing efforts, or something else.
I’ve been in correspondence with the SoundCloud support team, sending them requests to have the account restored – but because their security measures are so lax, it’s starting to feel like swimming up a river, against the current. I believe they are confused about what is going on with their platform. 2FA doesn’t work if their chatbots and support team are vulnerable to exploitation.
I’m hopeful that I can have the decades of music I have on there restored, along with my network – but perhaps SoundCloud has not, or will not, invest in cyber security to a level at which it needs to in order keep up against those who seek to infiltrate it and game their userbase. This makes it hard to justify spending any money on an account with them as a pro user. Which makes me wonder – what exactly will their business plan be without adequate security?
