{"id":236562,"date":"2026-05-05T23:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/vimeo-data-breach-exposes-personal-information-of-119000-people"},"modified":"2026-05-05T23:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:14:08","slug":"vimeo-data-breach-exposes-personal-information-of-119000-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/vimeo-data-breach-exposes-personal-information-of-119000-people","title":{"rendered":"Vimeo data breach exposes personal information of 119,000 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/vimeo-data-breach-exposes-personal-information-of-119000-people.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ShinyHunters extortion gang stole personal information belonging to over 119,000 people after hacking the Vimeo online video platform in April, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned.<\/p>\n<p>Vimeo is a video hosting and streaming platform publicly traded on the Nasdaq stock market, with over 300 million registered users and over 1,100 employees, and reported revenues of $417 million for FY2024.<\/p>\n<p>The company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/video-service-vimeo-confirms-anodot-breach-exposed-user-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">disclosed on April 27<\/a> that customer and user data had been accessed without authorization following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/snowflake-customers-hit-in-data-theft-attacks-after-saas-integrator-breach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">recent breach at Anodot<\/a>, a data anomaly detection company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ShinyHunters extortion gang stole personal information belonging to over 119,000 people after hacking the Vimeo online video platform in April, according to data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. Vimeo is a video hosting and streaming platform publicly traded on the Nasdaq stock market, with over 300 million registered users and over 1,100 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}