Don’t worry though, because there’s no way your ID verification for adult sites will ever get leaked
Millions of fake IDs have been leaked.
Dunno why your obvious joke about the effectiveness of age verification was downvoted
Norman Reedus sure likes his porn.
They should have done more penetration testing.
It wouldn’t have taken much effort to find that gaping back door.
They rushed. If you push it too fast it’ll blow up in your face.
Amateurs.
My stepmother works in that industry and could have helped with that.
You don’t happen to have a clothes dryer at home, do you?
Yes, but my step sister is stuck in that.
I know
What are you doing?
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 activity 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 attached to their identities.
Probably a lot of companies out there that log and retain a lot of data about their customers.
Good idea for consumers. Too bad nobody cares about that. Unless it’s their core business.
This is exactly why we need GDPR
Too bad that’s being dismantled right now.
Depending on the industry you might be required by law to keep some information for a certain period of time.
Which is exactly why you want to deal with companies that don’t collect that data in the first place. You know, exactly what he said.
I’ve watched pornhub a million times, but my data isn’t in this breach. Know why? Because I never made a profile or gave them one shred of information in the first place. All they could possibly have is a browser fingerprint and my VPNs various IP addresses. That is the point.
Ok, but you’re also choosing to not use the features that would require an account. Not everyone has the same use case.
Excuse me, this is the internet. Nuance isn’t allowed here
I don’t think the online porn industry has such legal requirements.
just serves as a reminder that we are all the “product.”
Why do you need to log into pornhub? I, um, a friend of mine, uses it fine without logging in…
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?”
hah ! that’s brilliant
lol, very gross. even the gay ones has incest-like, step gay bro/dad/.
You can follow uploaders, but since the mass removal of 85% of their videos I doubt the website has ever gotten better. I had a few favourites noted down but none of them exist now.
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.
They could still link your IP address to your porn profile
Maybe it’s akin to raising your arms submissively and having your thigh gap n junk get 3D scanned / inspected by a fully clothed TSA agent. Degrading, but not without a little thrill, no?
Florida here, gotta use my VPN anyway to get to PH. 🤷🏻♂️
They do attempt to, with cookies as well1. I suppose the upside of an account would be that you could carry your recommendations, etc. with you and have vpn on and/or cookies blocked.
1 I would never visit this site myself of course. this info was shared to me via an acquaintance ( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ )
My guess is following content creators that you like, and some people pay for the creator’s premium videos.
They gave away free premium during the COVID-19 lockdowns
To download
It’ll be fun finding all those “antiporn”, “antidei”, “antilgbtq+” fine people watching exactly that. Bonus points for .va domains.
.va = Vatican city officials, for those too lazy to Google.
Or .gov :)
Anyone who would sign up for a porn website using their .gov email address deserves to have it leaked
There is a subset of boomers who do this shit.
Usually it’s someone whose first email / phone was a company phone and never moved to a personal phone.
Still wild whenever I see it happen.
Older gen-x too.
Stupidity isn’t ageist I’m afraid
This is exactly why I’m cautious with websites that store people’s IDs.
No problem. Use someone else’s ID that gets leaked.
Modern problems require modern solutions
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.
I’ve read ‘the last legitimate login was in 2023’ so more like 2 years, but yeah
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
It was Reuters reporting on the same story
Pornhub’s data with Mixpanel was last accessed by “a legitimate employee account at Pornhub’s parent company in 2023,” according to the statement. “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.”
E: link
Hacking group ‘ShinyHunters’ threatens to expose premium users of sex site Pornhub - https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/hacking-group-shinyhunters-claims-theft-data-users-leading-sex-site-pornhub-2025-12-16/
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!!!
Children is all US Republicans seem to be able to think about…
how much of them are conservatives watching gay or trans porn.
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 wants 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!
would be fun to crosslink that list with https://wiki.icelist.is/
PUBLISH ALL OF IT!!
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.
The most embarrassing part about this would be people finding out you actually pay for porn
This why they are against store peoples ID. And this why those websites should never do it.
At some point on the Web (in my childhood, in the Russian-speaking parts - around 2002-2004) anything requiring registration was treated as some sort of closed club, and that was about just registration. Though people exposed their ICQ UINs and email addresses, so that you could chat with them (that’s the old way you’d DM a person whose post you liked).
I’m not sure about all these rules of what websites should and shouldn’t do. Perhaps websites should be always treated as some untrusted alien space that can possibly do anything. If you want to do something where such a leak is really bad, or anything worse than a pocket theft of 20$ - then perhaps such a system shouldn’t rely upon untrusted centralized service having everything.
I like the social model that existed then, though. It was somewhat global, now we have modern Web services (even if in Fediverse) that expose everything over the Web, posts, DMs and so on. Back then forums were websites, DMs were in ICQ\XMPP\Skype, email as its own thing, feeds as RSS.
Yep - it’s a good thing they just IP block users in ID check states or this could have been REALLY bad.
The next argument would then be, “then the site should not exist”
Porn ban complete.
Oh god the male baby boomers will never recover from this.
Gen X getting forgotten again.
They hope
I’ll never understand why people create accounts in the first place
To argue in the comments 😅
I never saw it myself, but I heard someone posted the big moment of Avengers Endgame in the comments of a lot of videos.
We all saw that… cummin
Ranked matchmaking
Wanked matchmaking
Go on…
No, seriously, is the algorithm any good?
To curate and follow specific models of course. 😀
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.
Free registration is what custom email addressed with fake personal information are for, if you want those features.
Yeah its pretty easy to make up a fake person to make an email with if you ever need to.
It’d be fine by me if gov’s weren’t so puritanical.
That’s way too much dedication to something that should take me like five minutes. People are crazy
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…
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?
