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Amber Bouman

200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far

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The infamous hacking group ShinyHunters have struck again, this time stealing a massive amount of user data from popular adult video platform Pornhub. It appears, according to recent reporting from Bleeping Computer, that the group is attempting to extort the site for a Bitcoin ransom. Otherwise, they will publish 94GB worth of data containing over 200 million records.

According to ShinyHunters, the records contain extensive data on Premium members including email addresses, activity type, location, video URL, video name, keywords associated with the video and the time the event occurred. Activity types include whether the subscriber watched or downloaded a video, or viewed a channel and events include search histories.

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