Pornhub Security Breach Sees Users’ Data Stolen
TL;DR
Pornhub's data breach, via former analytics provider Mixpanel, exposed historical user activity for Premium members. Hackers stole 94GB of data including emails and viewing habits.
Source: Newsweek
Pornhub, one of the world’s largest adult video platforms, disclosed that a breach at its former third-party analytics provider led to the exposure of historical user activity data for select Premium members. The adult site's breach originated not within its own systems, but in Mixpanel, an analytics provider that served the adult streaming service up until 2021. Last week Pornhub issued a public notice confirming that some Premium users had been impacted following a cybersecurity incident at Mixpanel. Members of the ShinyHunters hacking group claimed responsibility for the breach and taking a data set including about 94 gigabytes of records detailing email addresses, location, video titles, search keywords, activity types, and timestamps for over 200 million entries, Bleeping Computer reported. Full Story