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Vimeo breach: 119,167 accounts exposed

In April 2026, the ShinyHunters extortion group listed Vimeo on their extortion portal as part of their "pay or leak" campaign . They subsequently published hundreds of gigabytes of data, predominantly consisting of video titles, technical data and metadata.

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What happened

In April 2026, the ShinyHunters extortion group listed Vimeo on their extortion portal as part of their "pay or leak" campaign . They subsequently published hundreds of gigabytes of data, predominantly consisting of video titles, technical data and metadata. The data also included 119k unique email addresses, sometimes accompanied by names.

Vimeo attributed the exposure to a breach of Anodot, a third-party analytics vendor, and advised the incident does not include "Vimeo video content, valid user login credentials, or payment card information".

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Sources

  1. Primary source

    Have I Been Pwned: Vimeo (opens a new tab)

    Verified breach loaded into Have I Been Pwned: account count, exposed data types, and dates.

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  2. Primary source

    Vimeo disclosure (opens a new tab)

    The organization's own breach disclosure, as linked by Have I Been Pwned.

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    Have I Been Pwned breach API (opens a new tab)

    The breach list that supplied this entry.

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APA

KEVWire. (2026, May 5). Vimeo breach: 119,167 accounts exposed. https://kevwire.com/record/hibp-vimeo

MLA

"Vimeo breach: 119,167 accounts exposed." KEVWire, 5 May 2026, kevwire.com/record/hibp-vimeo.

Chicago

KEVWire. "Vimeo breach: 119,167 accounts exposed." Last modified May 5, 2026. https://kevwire.com/record/hibp-vimeo.

Evidence summary (plain text)

Vimeo breach: 119,167 accounts exposed (May 5, 2026).
In April 2026, the ShinyHunters extortion group listed Vimeo on their extortion portal as part of their "pay or leak" campaign . They subsequently published hundreds of gigabytes of data, predominantly consisting of video titles, technical data and metadata. The data also included 119k unique email addresses, sometimes accompanied by names. Vimeo attributed the exposure to a breach of Anodot, a third-party analytics vendor, and advised the incident does not include "Vimeo video content, valid user login credentials, or payment card information".
Sources:
Have I Been Pwned: Vimeo: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Vimeo
Vimeo disclosure: https://vimeo.com/blog/post/anodot-third-party-security-incident
Have I Been Pwned breach API: https://haveibeenpwned.com/api/v3/breaches
Record ID: hibp-vimeo.
Record origin: Ingested record.
AI evidence: Not assessed.
About this data

This record was ingested from a data source. Retrieved: Oct 27, 2026, 00:25 UTC. Ingestion is not an independent editorial investigation.

Verified by Have I Been Pwned. Breach date: 2026-04-28; loaded 2026-05-05. Exposed data: Email addresses, Names. Counts are accounts in the loaded data, not necessarily distinct people.

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