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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

The hack of crowdfunding site Patreon may have taken a turn for the worse for its users [theregister.co.uk]:

The attackers that compromised Patreon have dumped the data on various bin sites.

[...] Microsoft security bod Troy Hunt has promised an analysis of the data, but warns it's a big dump that might take some time. His short take [twitter.com] on Twitter is that the dumps look like the real thing.

Hunt expects to add Patreon members to his HaveIBeenPwned [haveibeenpwned.com] service once he's worked through the multi-gig data dump.

While of a different order to the Ashley Madison data dumps, there are two issues Patreon members could face. The first is that there may be personal or employment reasons for contributing anonymously to projects (or political reasons, for that matter); the second, that any leak of personal data helps identity thieves.

With 15 GB of data in the drop, there could be a lot of personal details in the leak (Vulture South is happy to leave it to others to pore over the data).

Previously: Patreon Announces Security Breach [soylentnews.org]

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