Overview
- Reuters reviewed a sample provided by ShinyHunters and confirmed details with at least three Pornhub Premium users, who said the data appeared genuine though several years old.
- ShinyHunters is demanding a Bitcoin payment and threatening publication, and the group’s usual darknet and Telegram channels were offline on Wednesday, limiting independent checks on any releases.
- Pornhub says only selected Premium customers were affected and no passwords or payment information were exposed, tying the issue to analytics vendor Mixpanel, while Mixpanel disputes a direct link and cites 2023 access timestamps.
- BleepingComputer reports the dataset includes premium users’ email addresses, search terms, viewing and download activity, video titles and URLs, timestamps, and coarse location information.
- SoundCloud says unknown attackers accessed internal systems, caused temporary outages, and viewed personal data for about 20% of users, including email addresses, with passwords and credit card data unaffected.