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Pornhub premium analytics data stolen for extortion
Over 200 million records of premium users' activity were claimed.
- Organisation
- Pornhub
- Disclosed
- 15 December 2025
- Affected
- 200,000,000 (claimed by attacker, unconfirmed)
- Data
- Emails, viewing and search history
- Attacker
- ShinyHunters
- Severity
- critical
- Region
- Global
- Source
- CM Alliance monthly roundup ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Pornhub premium analytics data stolen for extortion”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 15 Dec 2025. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2025-12-15-pornhub-breach/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: CM Alliance monthly roundup, https://www.cm-alliance.com/cybersecurity-blog/dec-2025-biggest-cyber-attacks-ransomware-attacks-and-data-breaches.
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