Brand New Tube data breach
From Breaches, in the HARD wiki · Updated
This article is about the August 2022 breach of Brand New Tube. For every breach, see Breaches.
The Brand New Tube data breach exposed 349,627 accounts from brandnewtube.com in August 2022. The data taken includes passwords, usernames, email addresses and private messages and 2 more kinds of data.[1]
Have I Been Pwned verified it and added it to its search on 8 Sep 2022, 1 month later. It is the 510th largest of the 618 breaches in HARD’s list.
What was exposed
Brand New Tube’s breach included 6 kinds of data. What each lets criminals do:
| Data | What it’s used for |
|---|---|
| Passwords | Criminals try leaked passwords on email, banking and shopping sites, because people reuse them. |
| Usernames | Half of a login. With a reused password, it opens other accounts. |
| Email addresses | Expect scam emails that name the company to look genuine. |
| Private messages | What you wrote, readable by whoever has the data. |
| Genders | Personal details that make scam messages more convincing. |
| IP addresses | Roughly where you were when you used the service. |
What to do
- Check whether you’re in it.Search your email address on Have I Been Pwned. It tells you which breaches it appears in, Brand New Tube among them, without showing the data.
- Change your Brand New Tube password.If the account still exists, sign in at Brand New Tube (brandnewtube.com) and change it.
- Change it anywhere you used the same one.Start with your email, then banking and shopping. Leaked passwords are tried on other sites automatically, within days.
- Use a password manager and two-step sign-in.A different password for every site means one breach can’t open the rest. Two-step sign-in stops a leaked password working on its own.
- Distrust messages that mention Brand New Tube.Scammers use breach data to sound genuine. Don’t click links in emails or texts about the breach; go to the site yourself.
Timeline
- : the breach, as best it can be dated.
- : Have I Been Pwned verifies the data and adds it to its search, 1 month later.
Similar breaches
Breaches that leaked the same kinds of data, closest in time:
- Liker, March 2021, 465,141 accounts
- AnimeLeague, July 2024, 192,134 accounts
- BitView, December 2024, 63,127 accounts
- BreachForums (2025), August 2025, 672,247 accounts
- Aimware, April 2019, 305,470 accounts
- Mangatoon, May 2022, 23 million accounts
See Breaches for all 618, and Updates for keeping your devices patched.
References
- ^ Troy Hunt. “Brand New Tube”, Have I Been Pwned, added 8 Sep 2022. Breach data licensed CC BY 4.0.
External links
- Have I Been Pwned, to check your email address
- brandnewtube.com, Brand New Tube’s website