Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers (techcrunch.com)

I am still confused for days whether this is a real news or a hoax. Only a substack user saying they received this email. I did not. And there is no official statement by Substack. What is really going on here?

> including email addresses, phone numbers, and other unspecified “internal metadata.”

> Substack specified that more sensitive data, such as credit card numbers, passwords, and other financial information, was unaffected.

I hate it when companies do this.

passwords and credit card numbers are easily changed.

names, emails and phone numbers are not.

Ooopsie... possibly a problem for some folks: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-s...

So, is the breach for substack users or for people who subscribed to substack users’ newsletters?

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Israel hacked a US based company and leaked data because they couldn't directly censor them?

The AI agents are throwing another party celebrating over yet another data breach where they can train on this data and can now get to know us even more for personalized conversations about our Substack activity.

cant we just take it as a given that since the entire internet is scraped every 4hr's an 10 min, and then ransacked by every AI big tech, nation state, and the over achiving geeks have at there disposal, and therefore there is nothing that isn't "breached", multiply, and updated?, upbreached! daily.