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Hacker claims theft of data from 700,000 Substack users; Company confirms breach

ID: df435d50-832b-5497-be98-fa2821a8f283

STIX ID: report--df435d50-832b-5497-be98-fa2821a8f283

Feed Name: Security Affairs

Threat Score
55/100

Date Published: 2026-02-05

Date Updated: 2026-04-22

Author: Pierluigi Paganini

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Substack confirmed a breach that exposed email addresses, phone numbers, and internal metadata for nearly 700,000 users (incident occurred October 2025, discovered February 3, 2026); the company says passwords and financial data were not accessed, is investigating, and is taking steps to improve security after a threat actor claimed the data was leaked on a cybercrime forum.

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