In late 2025, the media world was hit by a significant data exfiltration. Currently, the WIRED subscriber database has been leaked for free, exposing millions of records. However, the threat actor indicates that this is merely the beginning.
Hudson Rock researchers have authenticated the 2.3 million record WIRED leak using infostealer infection data. More alarmingly, the hacker claims that a much larger database consisting of 40,000,000 lines related to Condé Nast will be released soon. This impending leak is expected to impact major publications including Vogue, The New Yorker, and Vanity Fair.
Our validation of the current data confirms it is legitimate and fresh, with entries as recent as September 8, 2025.
The zip archive is protected by a password, and I’d appreciate being able to verify if my data is actually in this breach as I’m a WIRED subscriber. If anyone has the password to the breach file, please let me know. (the only other way to acquire the password is to quite literally just pay the forum user who posted the breach, and I’d rather not do that.)
My email doesn’t show as breached on common sites used to check for that, like Have I Been Pwned, but I’ve seen many instances of only some password managers/dark web scanners seeing someone’s data in a breach, while others won’t even with the same data on the user being checked.
have I been pwned has the details for this.
I got the email of doom from them. if you aren’t showing up on there then you’re probably good