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WIRED breach: 2,364,431 accounts exposed

In December 2025, 2.3M records of WIRED magazine users allegedly obtained from parent company Condé Nast were published online .

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What happened

In December 2025, 2.3M records of WIRED magazine users allegedly obtained from parent company Condé Nast were published online . The most recent data dated back to the previous September and exposed email addresses and display names, as well as, for a small number of users, their name, phone number, date of birth, gender, and geographic location or full physical address. The WIRED data allegedly represents a subset of Condé Nast brands the hacker also claims to have obtained.

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

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APA

KEVWire. (2025, December 28). WIRED breach: 2,364,431 accounts exposed. https://kevwire.com/record/hibp-wired

MLA

"WIRED breach: 2,364,431 accounts exposed." KEVWire, 28 Dec. 2025, kevwire.com/record/hibp-wired.

Chicago

KEVWire. "WIRED breach: 2,364,431 accounts exposed." Last modified December 28, 2025. https://kevwire.com/record/hibp-wired.

Evidence summary (plain text)

WIRED breach: 2,364,431 accounts exposed (Dec 27, 2025).
In December 2025, 2.3M records of WIRED magazine users allegedly obtained from parent company Condé Nast were published online . The most recent data dated back to the previous September and exposed email addresses and display names, as well as, for a small number of users, their name, phone number, date of birth, gender, and geographic location or full physical address. The WIRED data allegedly represents a subset of Condé Nast brands the hacker also claims to have obtained.
Sources:
Have I Been Pwned: WIRED: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/WIRED
Have I Been Pwned breach API: https://haveibeenpwned.com/api/v3/breaches
Record ID: hibp-wired.
Record origin: Ingested record.
AI evidence: Not assessed.
About this data

This record was ingested from a data source. Retrieved: Oct 26, 2026, 22:25 UTC. Ingestion is not an independent editorial investigation.

Verified by Have I Been Pwned. Breach date: 2025-09-08; loaded 2025-12-27. Exposed data: Dates of birth, Display names, Email addresses, Genders, Geographic locations, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses. Counts are accounts in the loaded data, not necessarily distinct people.

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