Was I in the MyVidster (2025) breach?
MyVidster is a social video sharing and bookmarking site. Its breach happened in October 2025 and exposed 3,864,364 accounts. It included email addresses, profile photos and usernames. If you had an account there by October 2025, check your address below to see whether it is one of them.
Breach record last updated . Steps read from the government pages at the foot of this page.
What happened?
In October 2025 data on MyVidster users appeared on an open hacking forum. This was a separate incident from the breach in 2015. It exposed usernames and email addresses, and for a few users, profile photos.
- Organisation
- MyVidster, a social video sharing and bookmarking site (myvidster.com)
- When it happened
- October 2025
- Added to monitored breach databases
- 27 October 2025
- Accounts in the data
- 3,864,364
- What was exposed
- email addresses, profile photos and usernames
What was exposed, and what does it mean for me?
- Your email addressemail addresses
Expect messages that look like they come from this service or another one you use, written to get you to click a link or sign in on a fake page.
- Other detailsprofile photos and usernames
On their own these carry less risk, but they make a scam message sound more personal.
What should I do now?
In this order, for what this breach exposed.
1. Expect phishing
- Be wary of messages that urge you to act fast, ask for personal details, or link to an address that is slightly off.
- If a message might be genuine, do not use its links or phone numbers. Go to the site by typing its address yourself.
Is my address in it?
Enter your email address. We check that one address against monitored breach databases and show which breaches list it and what each exposed.
No account needed. We keep the address you check, when, and how many breach records it was found in, to prevent abuse, until you ask us to delete it. Privacy
Where does this come from?
- The breach record in monitored breach databases: dates, account count and what was exposed. What happened is in our own words.Read 14 October 2026
- CISA: Recognize and report phishingRead 14 October 2026
- Get Cyber Safe (Government of Canada): Fact sheet on phishingRead 14 October 2026