Substack said that customer data was accessed in October 2025, but wasn't discovered until early February.
Substack won't share official numbers, but it seems like a pretty significant data breach.
Substack, the hugely popular online content platform with 50 million active subscribers, has confirmed it has been hacked.
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If you’re impacted by the security incident, you’ll hear directly from the brand with an email from Substack's CEO.
The hacker claims to have stolen nearly 700,000 Substack user records, including email addresses and phone numbers.
Substack states that the security flaw has now been fixed and that a full investigation is underway. There are currently no ...
The digital publishing platform Substack has told some of its users that their data was stolen in a security breach. The ...
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