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Subscribe to PornHub? Hackers Say They Know What You Watched and Searched For
ShinyHunters claim to have stolen over 200 million records of historical PornHub Premium user activity from Mixpanel and threaten publication unless ransoms are paid.
- On November 8, 2025, Mixpanel suffered a breach after an SMS phishing attack, and last week ShinyHunters began extorting Mixpanel customers with threats to publish stolen data.
- Legacy analytics retained in Mixpanel's environment left historical records exposed, and Pornhub says it stopped working with Mixpanel in 2021, so the exposed data are from 2021 or earlier, with a legitimate employee last accessing it in 2023.
- According to extortion messages, about 94GB of data was taken, with ShinyHunters telling BleepingComputer they hold 201,211,943 records including emails, locations, and viewing activity.
- Pornhub has notified affected Premium users, launched an internal investigation, engaged external cybersecurity partners, informed authorities, and confirmed passwords and payment details were not exposed.
- The incident underscores broader supply‑chain cybersecurity concerns as security experts warn ShinyHunters, linked to Oracle E-Business Suite zero-day and Salesforce/Drift attacks, targets integration vendors amid the age-verification debate in 23 US states.
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ShinyHunters' Heist: Data Breach Hits Pornhub's Premium Customers
ShinyHunters' Heist: Data Breach Hits Pornhub's Premium Customers The hacking group known as ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for a data breach affecting premium customers of Pornhub, a leading adult website. On Tuesday, the group announced that it had secured and leaked personal information, although the full extent of the breach has yet to be quantified.Reuters received a sample of the stolen data from the hackers, which it was able to …
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