Adult site, streaming platform, and Japanese retailer expose user info, but not credentials

Three very different companies have now confirmed data breaches affecting millions of users – each insisting the damage stopped well short of passwords and payment details.

Pornhub has told Premium subscribers that some user data was exposed after a breach at Mixpanel, a third-party analytics provider it once used, rather than through any compromise of Pornhub's own systems.

In a notice to users, the adult site said the incident affected "only select Premium users" and involved a limited set of analytics events inside Mixpanel's environment. Pornhub stressed that passwords, credentials, payment details, and government IDs were not exposed, and noted it stopped working with Mixpanel in 2021 but was informed of the breach by the vendor.

The disclosure follows a similar incident last week affecting OpenAI, which traced a leak of internal data to compromised Mixpanel analytics credentials.

SoundCloud has also confirmed it was breached after a week of ...