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200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far (www.tomsguide.com)
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[–] tal@lemmy.today 141 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

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.

Probably a lot of companies out there that log and retain a lot of data about their customers.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 70 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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 14 points 4 days ago

Too bad that's being dismantled right now.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Depending on the industry you might be required by law to keep some information for a certain period of time.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ok, but you're also choosing to not use the features that would require an account. Not everyone has the same use case.

[–] ADTJ@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago

Excuse me, this is the internet. Nuance isn't allowed here

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago

I don’t think the online porn industry has such legal requirements.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

just serves as a reminder that we are all the “product.”