Threats: Results of a pilot survey on threats, and a new category on DataBreaches.net

**Executive summary:** A pilot survey run by DataBreaches with Zack Whittaker (Dec 20–Jan 18) gathered responses from 112 participants to document legal, criminal, and other threats faced by security researchers and journalists; the post presents preliminary findings, introduces a new "Threats" news category on DataBreaches to aggregate related items, and calls for more in-depth research with larger, representative samples.