Is Suno Down?

SOURCE-CODE LEAK + DATA BREACH EXPOSES TRAINING-DATA SCRAPING (mid-July 2026, first reported by 404 Media ~7/15, covered by TechCrunch): a hacker leaked Suno source code after a **November 2025 supply-chain compromise** (traced to the Shai-Hulud npm attack) that captured an employee's credentials. The code allegedly documents mass scraping of copyrighted audio -- **YouTube Music (~113,879 hrs), Genius (~17,615 hrs), Deezer (~12,287 hrs)**, plus Pond5/Jamendo/Freesound/IMSLP, podcast RSS feeds, and stock libraries (hours per Music Business Worldwide / 404 Media). A parallel **user-data breach** reportedly exposed data on tens of millions of accounts (~55M cited), including emails, phone numbers, and partial credit-card / Stripe payment metadata. Suno characterized it as a 'limited security incident that was quickly contained,' said the exposed code was 'outdated / no longer in use,' and reportedly did not notify customers of the Nov 2025 breach. LEGAL WEIGHT: labels argue the scraping deliberately circumvented YouTube's protections (a DMCA / terms-of-service violation) -- potentially a 'smoking gun' that undercuts Suno's fair-use defense in the pending GEMA and UMG/Sony cases

LITIGATION STATUS -- ONE VERDICT DUE 7/31, US CASE NOT UNTIL 2027 (corrected 2026-07-22): (1) **GEMA v. Suno: the Munich Regional Court reads its decision Friday July 31, 2026, 9:00, Courtroom 270** (postponed to this date) -- potentially the first European ruling that training AI music on copyrighted works requires a license, enforceable under German law during any appeal. (2) **US case (UMG/Sony v. Suno, D. Mass., Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV) is NOT imminent** -- CORRECTION to earlier 'July 2026 summary-judgment hearing' reporting: the court **reset its schedule on 2026-06-30, with dispositive (summary-judgment) motions now due April 9, 2027**. So the only near-term ruling is Munich's 7/31; the US fair-use question is a 2027+ timeline. The mid-July source-code leak (see entry above) is likely to feature in both proceedings

FUNDING + LICENSED MODEL (2026-06-03): Suno raised **$400M+ Series D at a $5.4B post-money valuation**, led by Bond Capital (IVP, Forerunner, USV, Alkeon, Lightspeed, Menlo, Matrix + unnamed artists/songwriters participating) -- more than doubling the $2.45B valuation from ~6 months prior. CEO Mikey Shulman confirmed the first industry-sanctioned model is a **Warner Music Group partnership**, currently in testing, rolling out 'in the coming months' -- note this is WMG-specific (post-settlement), NOT a blanket music-industry license; Sony and UMG litigation continues with a summary-judgment hearing set for July 2026. **Suno v6 remains unreleased** -- vendor model timeline still tops out at V5.5; treat v6 release-date claims as rumor

ElevenLabs launched ElevenMusic on iOS 2026-04-02 as a direct Suno/Udio competitor -- 7 free songs/day, Pro $9.99/mo or $95.90/yr, commercially licensed from day one, with ElevenLabs' voice-cloning stack as the differentiator. This is the first credible challenger to Suno's free-tier economics in 2026

Suno v5.5 shipped 2026-03-27 with three major personalization features: Voices (voice capture/cloning with anti-impersonation verification), Custom Models (train on 6+ of your own songs), and My Taste (passive preference learning). Marks a shift from generic to identity-driven music generation

Warner Music licensing deal (announced Dec 2025) is triggering a major policy shift in 2026: free-tier downloads removed, current pre-Warner models scheduled for deprecation later in 2026 when new licensed-only models ship. Universal Music Group and Sony talks reportedly at impasse as of 2026-04-09 -- ongoing litigation pressure. Udio took the opposite path -- settled with Universal + Warner + Merlin accepting no-download restriction. Plan for download/model changes in H2 2026