All of you Pornhub premium subscribers just had your search and watch activity hacked

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There’s something particularly frightening about porn and similar data breaches — it’s an internet nightmare come true. No matter who you are, where you live or what you do, your adult content search history getting into the wrong hands is terrifying. …

“We recently learned that an unauthorized party gained unauthorized access to analytics data stored with Mixpanel, a third-party data analytics service provider,” Pornhub confirmed in a Dec. 12 statement updated on Dec. 16. “The unauthorized party was able to use this unauthorized access to extract a limited set of analytics events for some users. This was not a breach of Pornhub Premium’s systems.”

The company stressed “no passwords, credentials, payment details or government IDs were compromised or exposed and we have since secured the affected account and stopped the unauthorized access..” But that’s probably not the primary concern.

As ImmuniWeb’s Ilia Kolochenko warns, “if the allegations that 201,211,943 records of Pornhub’s Premium users were compromised – including detailed historical search, watch and download activity – are true, this data breach may dethrone the notorious data breach of Adult Friend Finder (AFF) in 2016.” …

This type of data fuels fake sextortion scams that claim to have harvest user activity on sites such as Pornhub, threatening to share with friends and family. Now that data may really be out there.

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