They should have done more penetration testing.
200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far
Submitted 1 day ago by fubarx@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Codpiece@feddit.uk 1 day ago
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It wouldn’t have taken much effort to find that gaping back door.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They rushed. If you push it too fast it’ll blow up in your face.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Amateurs.
tal@lemmy.today 1 day ago
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.
This sort of thing is one of those examples why “no log, no profile” service is probably a good idea. The service could have offered the option to charge a fee for access, but not retain customer data. They didn’t do that. At some point down the line, someone got ahold of the data, which I imagine that their customers are not really super keen on having floating around.
Evotech@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Good idea for consumers. Too bad nobody cares about that. Unless it’s their core business.
This is exactly why we need GDPR
msage@programming.dev 1 day ago
Too bad that’s being dismantled right now.
flandish@lemmy.world 1 day ago
just serves as a reminder that we are all the “product.”
MonkeyDumpster@lemmy.org 1 day ago
Why do you need to log into pornhub? I, um, a friend of mine, uses it fine without logging in…
Lanusensei87@lemmy.world 1 day ago
There was a time when they were pushing the step sibling fetish real hard, like, all the videos in the front page were that, and then they put a banner saying “tired of seeing step____? Why not make an account and filter it out?”
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Dunno about y’all but I can wank through the made up plot points without much trouble
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
lol, very gross. even the gay ones has incest-like, step gay bro/dad/.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 1 day ago
hah ! that’s brilliant
Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
You can follow uploaders, but since the mass removal of 80% of their videos I doubt the website has ever gotten better. I had a few favourites noted down but none of them exist now.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I mean, I’m not mad about why they removed so many videos. They had a massive CSAM and revenge porn problem, to the point that you could often find it on the front page. They also had really ineffectual methods for victims to report offending content, to get it taken down. There was also the whole “victim can only begin the takedown process (which likely won’t even get the video taken down) if they know it has been posted” problem. And their fix was to only allow uploads by verified users.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
You can favorite things, and create lists. And their algorithm seems to show you things you might like based on that and your other views. I found it quite useful. Obviously I used a garbage email address.
AceBonobo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They could still link your IP address to your porn profile
northernlights@lemmy.today 1 day ago
To download
passepartout@feddit.org 1 day ago
Although I absolutely understand that the common folk will have a hard time downloading porn in the CLI.
Damage@feddit.it 1 day ago
They gave away free premium during the COVID-19 lockdowns
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
This is going to be fun. Let’s do some Data Analysis with this. Find the republican with the highest amount of watch time of gay porn.
ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
South Carolina has entered the chat
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
to them it’s not gay unless you’re the bottom.
Renat@szmer.info 17 hours ago
I mostly play as support, but sometimes I pick mid lane, rarely bottom lane as ADC. Is it gay? (I’m LOL player)
Sauvandu60@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
This is exactly why I’m cautious with websites that store people’s IDs.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
No problem. Use someone else’s ID that gets leaked.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
interesting
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
how much of them are conservatives watching gay or trans porn.
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
Exactly the first thought I had.
YOU KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS, IT’S TIME TO PLAY THE WORLD’S LONGEST RUNNING GAME SHOW…
WHICH QUEERPHOBIC PUBLIC FIGURE IS WATCHING QUEER PORN!
Let’s Greet our Contestants, shall we?
He’s so homophobic someone renamed a mix of Cum and Lube after him, it’s Rick Santorum!
He’s so transphobic JK Rowling told him to tone it down, It’s Graham Linnerhan!
Despite wearing platform shoes, he want to make all forms of Queerness a crime, it’s Ron DeSantis!
And finally, she’s called for Transgender Women to be executed en mass, for famous transwomen to be raped, and she’s featured in some of the Queer porn in question, it’s Lily Cade!
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
PUBLISH ALL OF IT!!
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
Considering conservatives are the ones most likely to “sign up”(fuck that is a strange thing to type! Imagine needing to vote and comment on porn!), I’m betting on the over.
Mihies@programming.dev 1 day ago
It’ll be fun finding all those “antiporn”, “antidei”, “antilgbtq+” fine people watching exactly that. Bonus points for .va domains.
Bgugi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
.va = Vatican city officials, for those too lazy to Google.
northernlights@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Or .gov :)
suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Anyone who would sign up for a porn website using their .gov email address deserves to have it leaked
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
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.
haha
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh, but the children are safe and priority and that’s why they want to verify them. Oh but the children. Think about the children!!! CHILDREN!!!
locahosr443@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Children is all US Republicans seem to be able to think about…
chuso@fedia.io 1 day ago
Sorry, but I don't think we're emphasising enough that Pornhub shared details of its users, such as their search history and watched videos, with an external company and that external company kept that data for over four years after their relationship ended.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve read ‘the last legitimate login was in 2023’ so more like 2 years, but yeah
chuso@fedia.io 16 hours ago
I don't see any reference to 2023 in that article, but this:
Pornhub has not worked with Mixpanel since 2021, which means that the stolen data would be from that year or earlier
DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This why they are against store peoples ID. And this why those websites should never do it.
Tilgare@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Yep - it’s a good thing they just IP block users in ID check states or this could have been REALLY bad.
boogiebored@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The next argument would then be, “the the site should not exist”
Porn ban complete.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ll never understand why people create accounts in the first place
Tronn4@lemmy.world 1 day ago
To argue in the comments 😅
hogmomma@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I never saw it myself, but I heard someone posted the big moment of Avengers Endgame in the comments of a lot of videos.
Baggie@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Ranked matchmaking
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Wanked matchmaking
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Go on…
No, seriously, is the algorithm any good?
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
To curate and follow specific models of course.
Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The most embarrassing part about this would be people finding out you actually pay for porn
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 19 hours ago
2 in the pink, 200 million in the stink
bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Pornhub has not worked with Mixpanel since 2021, which means that the stolen data would be from that year or earlier. Reuters, who contacted some Pornhub customers to confirm the breach, was able to authenticate that the user data that pertained to those customers was accurate – but was several years old which would be consistent with the Mixpanel data.
We checked our accounts and this is what we found…
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 22 hours ago
Hello Sir… Good news is I’m not calling to talk about our Lord and Saviour. Bad news, can you verify your identity and daily access to the following pornhub fetishes?
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Oh god the male baby boomers will never recover from this.
Codpiece@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Gen X getting forgotten again.
HK65@sopuli.xyz 19 hours ago
They hope
BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 hours ago
Release the pornhub files!
danekrae@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have heard people try to explain why they log in on porn sites: It saves your favorite videos, it recommends new videos and it makes it possible to see paid content.
All three things are reasons why I don’t want to log in. Yeah, like I want a list of my perversions attached to my name.
snooggums@piefed.world 1 day ago
Free registration is what custom email addressed with fake personal information are for, if you want those features.
Goretantath@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah its pretty easy to make up a fake person to make an email with if you ever need to.
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Just bookmark the stuff, it’s easier than making an account anyway
deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Just download everything, storage is cheap. No reason not to have a few TB of high resolution porn of exactly what you like.
danekrae@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have a decent memory. 60% of the time, it works every time.
Goretantath@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My bookmarks list is too big and searching doesn’t help since the names the bookmarks are given are too similar by the automatic process. Also can’t thumb up stuff without an account and bookmarking is also a statistic to show popularity of the artists work. Idk what happens on pornhub though.
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
That’s way too much dedication to something that should take me like five minutes. People are crazy
FauxLiving@lemmy.world 1 day ago
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Who the hell uses their real name and e-mail to open accounts in sites like PornHub?
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Oh noes my porn viewing history!
Imagine the juicy search history’s people might be able to link up with bigots and racists. Let’s find JDs account, $5 there’s couch fucking videos.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Here’s what we know so far”
…
Hay guys maybe we should just let this one go, ya know l.
We don’t really need to dig any deeper, I’m sure it’s fine.
timewarp@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Perfect blackmail material to insist people vote for more people like Trump. There is a reason Republicans want ID verification.
Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
200 million perverts.
twinnie@feddit.uk 1 day ago
In the unlikely event I had to create a porn site account even the NSA wouldn’t be able to link it back to me.
Goretantath@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Funny, I never made an account there.
Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Don’t worry though, because there’s no way your ID verification for adult sites will ever get leaked
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Millions of fake IDs have been leaked.
4am@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Dunno why your obvious joke about the effectiveness of age verification was downvoted
Blackmist@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Norman Reedus sure likes his porn.