Hackers Stole Millions of PornHub Users’ Data for Extortion

https://www.wired.com/story/security-news-this-week-hackers-stole-millions-of-pornhub-users-data-for-extortion/

41 Comments

  1. What kind of idiot logs in to pornhub? This was always gonna happen. Now the world knows about your kinks.

  2. See, this is why you shouldn’t be a prude. If this happened to me, I’d be making fun of the hackers. I’d imagine like 80-90% of people have been on that site at least once. If we all admit that we sometimes like seeing that stuff, as humans do, then it’ll render every single porn blackmailer hacker completely powerless.

  3. Meanwhile I’m here sitting with 30+ nsfw games in my Steam library open to everyone to see.

  4. It’s 2025. Unless the porn you watch is illegal (not on pornhub anyways), who gives a shit what type of porn you consume. It’s all good.

  5. asexyleathercouch on

    Pretty sure the kind of people who would have an actual account mostly don’t care.

  6. This is why you **do not make accounts on porn sites**. There’s no need for that. There’s so much free porn, why are you logging in other than to pay for it?

  7. This never would have happened if people only were required to upload their id to access the site….. Wait….. Uhm….. 🤔🙄

  8. I feel to say (even if it is just shouting into a void) that online porn has had a distinct ‘shift’ since the Trump administration got in. Perhaps it’s just co-incidence, or I’m getting old, or any number of contributing factors.. but it all seems to be getting more and more homogenized and regulated. The amount of ‘fakery’, even though porn is inherently ‘fake’, has become almost unavoidable. More violence, more gross non-kissing or non-sensual porn has flooded the internet. Plastic everywhere. Mara-lago-face far more common at a younger and younger age in women. The same 3 sites being linked to all searches no matter how specific or off-beat.

    I don’t know. Perhaps it’s not worth discussing because it’s just ‘porn’ after all… but it kinda disturbs me for some reason. Much like how free speech seems to be under attack in the states. I see how it the rot is bleeding into the most basic human needs. Being modified and restricted(often only for monetary gain)

  9. My friend Bill got his info stolen from the Ashley Maddison hack back in the day.

    He gets an email blackmailing him about a month or so later. The hacker group was asking for something like 2 bitcoins or they would send all of his site activity to his wife.

    He replied back and asked what a bitcoin was. He legitimately didn’t know. They explained it to him. He said he still had no idea what they were talking about. They then asked for money. He replied back that he was broke. He got a reply back asking for less money. He finally just said to send his information out, he wasn’t even married, he joined the site to meet women. Along with he didn’t give two shits what they did with his info.

    I think at this point the hackers just left him alone. It was probably a bluff to start with. They probably thought since he replied to the initial email that they had someone desperate to keep his information secret.

  10. Some far right people will have to talk about all the gay porn Research they have been conducting.

  11. Please publicly release all the data. I’d like to know who in the “party of family values” is cranking their hog to some weird shit.

  12. Considering how many people had access to the prod database of pornhub, it sure wouldn’t have been hard to download the whole thing without anyone noticing, people act like porn companies are on the cutting edge, pornhub is written in PHP by devs getting paid $40-90K CAD and many offshore people getting paid even less.

  13. JustMyThoughts2525 on

    It’s one reason why I’ve never logged in with my email on a porn website.

    It’s also why you have to be extremely dumb to upload your ID thinking that your identity and activity will be protected.

  14. Delicious_Rabbit4425 on

    Nice are they going to send me a full history so I can go find those good ones again?

  15. Affectionate_Ad6273 on

    Lucky for me, I’m completely unashamed by all the weird stuff that I’m into