Vimeo data breach exposes personal information of 119,000 users after Anodot incident

The video-sharing platform Vimeo has confirmed that it was affected by a data breach linked to a wider security incident involving the analytics company Anodot. The breach, which took place in April 2026, has now been reported to have impacted more than 119,000 individuals, according to new analysis published by the data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned? Vimeo initially informed users that a security incident had occurred after attackers gained access through third-party integration features. The intrusion was associated with the ShinyHunters hacking group, which is believed to have exploited access to Anodot’s cloud-based systems. These systems included Snowflake accounts used by customers, among them Vimeo. Anodot is an artificial intelligence-driven analytics platform designed to detect anomalies in business data in real time. Organisations use it to identify issues such as sudden drops in sales, unexpected increases in costs, or technical faults that could affect operations. In this case, however, the platform’s integration capabilities appear to have been used as an entry point for unauthorised access. At the time of disclosure, Vimeo stated that the attackers may have accessed technical data, video titles and related metadata. The company also noted that in some cases, customer email addresses might
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