Adult video platform PornHub is being extorted by the ShinyHunters extortion gang after the search and watch history of its Premium members was reportedly stolen in a recent Mixpanel data breach. Last week, PornHub disclosed that it was impacted by a recent breach at analytics vendor Mixpanel. Mixpanel suffered a breach on November 8th, 2025, after an SMS phishing attack enabled threat actors to compromise its systems. This is the first time it has been publicly confirmed that ShinyHunters was behind the Mixpanel breach.
“A recent cybersecurity incident involving Mixpanel, a third-party data analytics provider, has impacted some Pornhub Premium users,” reads a PornHub security notice posted on Friday. “Specifically, this situation affects only select Premium users. It is important to note this was not a breach of Pornhub Premium’s systems. Passwords, payment details, and financial information remain secure and were not exposed.” PornHub says it has not worked with Mixpanel since 2021, indicating the stolen records are historical analytics data from 2021 or earlier. When contacting PornHub, the company did not provide additional comment to BleepingComputer beyond the security notice.
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Mixpanel says the breach affected a “limited number” of customers, with OpenAI and CoinTracker previously disclosing they were affected. However, after publishing our story, Mixpanel told BleepingComputer that it does not believe this data originated from the recent November breach.
“Mixpanel is aware of reports that Pornhub has been extorted with data that that was allegedly stolen from us,” Mixpanel told BleepingComputer. “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 unauthorized party, we do not believe that is the result of a security incident at Mixpanel.”
Source: PornHub Extorted After Hackers Steal Premium Member Activity Data