Brand New Tube Data Breach

What happened

In August 2022, the streaming website Brand New Tube suffered a data breach that exposed the personal information of almost 350k subscribers. The impacted data included email and IP addresses, usernames, genders, passwords stored as unsalted SHA-1 hashes and private messages.

Exposed data

Recommended actions

• Change your Brand New Tube password immediately, and update it anywhere you reused the same password.
• Enable two-factor authentication on the affected account and on your critical services (email, banking).
• Watch for targeted phishing emails referencing Brand New Tube — attackers weaponise breach data quickly.
• Check whether your email address appears in this breach on haveibeenpwned.com.