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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/

  2. Re:Expect drama by ArylAkamov · · Score: 3, Informative

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

  3. 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.