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17th December 2025
09:46am GMT
Pornography video-sharing website Pornhub has been hit by security breach and 200 million users have been threatened to be exposed by hackers.
Hackers claim to have broken Pornhub’s site security and data could be exposed for around 200 million users on the site.
The cybercrime group ShinyHunters is reported to have told Pornhub that it has access to 94GB of data of data of premium users.
This year restrictions were put in place to limit the amount of pornographic content that could be seen especially by young people.
However, the website remains to be popular, and many people have found a way to still access the website without actually filling in personal information or their photo.
Numbers in the UK may drop even further as there are attempts to propose new laws to finally close this loophole.
But the recent security breach actually threatens to expose information of premium users, that is those who pay in order to use Pornhub premium.
Premium users are those that have access to millions of videos, including over 100,000 which cannot be seen by just anyone.
Cybercriminals who hacked into the site last month, now have huge amounts of data that includes location, email addresses, video titles and activity types for over 200 million entries, according to Bleeping Computer.
On the other hand, Pornhub said that they recently learned of this new security breach.
“We recently learned that an unauthorised party gained unauthorised access to analytics data stored with Mixpanel, a third-party data analytics service provide. The unauthorised party was able to use this unauthorised access to extract a limited set of analytics events for some users”, Pornhub said in a statement.
However, Pornhub added that passwords, credentials or government IDs were not compromised or exposed as it was not a breach of their own system.
They added that “specifically, this situation affects only select Premium users. It is important to note this was not a breach of Pornhub Premium’s systems. Passwords, payment details, and financial information remain secure and were not exposed.”
Pornhub added that “while our investigation is ongoing, we encourage all users to remain vigilant by monitoring their accounts for any suspicious emails or unusual activity.”
