Pornhub premium users’ data stolen by hackers demanding ransom
Global News
The hacking group ShinyHunters shared data with Reuters from what it said were users of Pornhub’s premium service, and said it was demanding ransom in Bitcoin to delete the data.
The hacking group “ShinyHunters” said on Tuesday it has stolen data belonging to premium customers of the leading sex website Pornhub and is threatening to publish it.
Although Reuters could not immediately establish the scope, scale, or details of the breach, the hackers provided a sample of the data which the news agency was able to partially authenticate.
At least three former Pornhub customers – two men in Canada and a man in the U.S. – confirmed to Reuters that the data pertaining to them was authentic, albeit several years old. They spoke on condition of anonymity given the sensitivity of the matter.
Pornhub and its corporate owners, the Ottawa, Canada-based Ethical Capital Partners, did not return messages. News of the breach was reported earlier by cybersecurity news site Bleeping Computer.
Pornhub, which claims more than 100 million daily visits and 36 billion visits per year, is one of the web’s most popular purveyors of sexual content, particularly videos, many of which are free to view.
ShinyHunters shared data from what it said were 14 users of Pornhub’s premium service, which offers high-definition videos, ad-free watching, and virtual reality.
Reuters was able to match the details of six people in the ShinyHunters’ data to information dumped online during previous data breaches and preserved by the dark web intelligence firm District 4 Labs. Three of the affected people confirmed to Reuters that they had, at one point, been signed up to Pornhub’s premium service.
Reuters could not immediately ascertain how ShinyHunters acquired the data. ShinyHunters said they would not go into detail about the breach.
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