Pornhub hack sees 200 million users’ search data at risk of being leaked

Pornhub has been hit by a huge data breach, leaving 200 million users’ search data at risk of being leaked. 

In a statement released on 12 December, and updated four days later, Pornhub revealed that Pornhub Premium members’ data had been beached. The breach dates back to 2023. 

“We recently learned that an unauthorised party gained unauthorised access to analytics data stored with Mixpanel, a third-party data analytics service provider,” the statement began. 

“The unauthorised party was able to use this unauthorised access to extract a limited set of analytics events for some users. This was not a breach of Pornhub Premium’s systems.”

Despite the company emphasising that no “passwords, credentials , payment details or government IDs” were compromised or exposed, there is still huge concern about the implications of the hack. 

There is fear that the data at risk could fuel sextorion scams, with the scammers threatening to share users’ Pornhub histories with family and friends. 

Reports suggest that the breached data includes users’ email address, location, keywords for videos searched, watched and downloaded and the time those videos were watched or downloaded. 

As per the Bleeping Computer, “in an extortion demand sent to PornHub, ShinyHunters claims it stole 94GB of data containing over 200 million records of personal information in the Mixpanel breach. 

“ShinyHunters later confirmed to BleepingComputer that they were behind the extortion emails, claiming the data consists of 201,211,943 records of historical search, watch, and download activity for the platform’s Premium members.”

Mixpanel told the publication that it “is aware of reports that Pornhub has been extorted with data that was allegedly stolen from us.”

The statement added: “We can find no indication that this data was stolen from Mixpanel during our November 2025 security Incident or otherwise.

“The data was last accessed by a legitimate employee account at Pornhub’s parent company in 2023.

“If this data is in the hands of an unauthorised party, we do not believe that is the result of a security incident at Mixpanel.” 

Pornhub’s statement advised: “While our investigation is ongoing, we encourage all users to remain vigilant by monitoring their accounts for any suspicious emails or unusual activity.” 

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