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Stolen Patreon User Data Dumped On Internet

Posted by timothy on from the thanks-fellas dept.

After the personal data breach at crowd-funding site Patreon reported a few days ago, there's some worse news: the information isn't just in limbo any more; Patreon reported Saturday that the compromised information has been leaked in the form of a massive data dump. (The slightly good news is that no credit card information was leaked.)

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  1. data dump link by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    https://patreon.thecthulhu.com/

    1. Re:data dump link by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2, Informative

      The SQL file in the dump contains all the private messages sent on the site. It's likely that many Patreon users will be embarrassed by the nature of those messages, e.g. they are getting paid by unsavoury individuals, being encouraged to harass and abuse other people for money, or speaking candidly about their motivations (e.g. bigotry) while trying to maintain a respectable public face.

      There is also information on who is funding whom, so a lot of people who might have wished to remain anonymous will now be exposed as e.g. supporting GamerGate or anti-rights speakers. As well as social repercussions they might lose their jobs etc. Remember how people reacted to Eich's support of an anti-gay-rights bill.

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      const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
      SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
  2. Re:Expect drama by etnoy · · Score: 2, Informative

    By the way, she never said what you claim she did. If I'm wrong you will provide a reliable source, I'm sure.

    This enough for ya? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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    Quantum hacker.
  3. Re:Expect drama by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Never heard of "Anita Sarkeesian" so to save some googling for other folks who hadn't heard of her either, here's a summary: Somewhat attractive face and body looks pretty hot. Guessing tits only 34C or so. However, the other girl that popped up in Google images (Zoe Quinn?) is definitely hotter, face isn't great but there are a few full-body pics and it looks like she has really nice tits (36D?) and scrumptious ass.

    Overall, the first girl is around a 6/10 and the second one tops her scoring a respectable 7/10.

    (Unfortunately this information was buried under a ton of unrelated links to stuff like games and girls rights or something. So hopefully it will save others some time by not having to waste time with those.)

  4. Re:Expect drama by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Thunderf00t would be proud. Taken out of context and edited down to just those words. She clearly never intended the meaning you imply, and actually if you watch the whole debate she was saying the EXACT OPPOSITE.

    Her point was that to be a feminist you don't have to take that view. It's just straw feminist argument that gives people the wrong impression.

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    const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
    SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
  5. Re:Expect drama by ArylAkamov · · Score: 3, Informative

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  6. Which Side Fought Against Disclosure, Again? by Kunedog · · Score: 3, Informative
    Spinning this hack as bad for Gamergate requires some desperate mental gymnastics.

    Gamergate exposed many undisclosed financial relationships between the gaming journalists and article subjects, forcing their employers to reform their ethics policies and add appropriate disclosures.

    A significant chunk of those relationships were through Patreon, and at least one of the resulting ethics policy updates made direct reference to Patreon. Also note that many gaming journalists "responded" to Gamergate's successful push for greater ethics scrutiny by . . . hiding their Patreon donations by making them private.

    I doubt the hack is good for either side of the "culture war", but anti-GG has a history of trying to hide where the money is coming from (and going to).

    Remember how people reacted to Eich's support of an anti-gay-rights bill.

    Sure do. How the reaction was widely reported in the mainstream tech news media is a completely different matter.