New Delhi, Dec. 18 -- Hacking group ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for stealing Pornhub data that belonged to the website's premium customers. The group is also threatening to publish the data if its ransom demands are not met.

The data pertaining to Pornhub's paying customers was reportedly stolen during a recent Mixpanel data breach, as per a report by BleepingComputer.

Meanwhile, the extortion gang also sent a sample of the data to Reuters, which the news agency has partially confirmed to be authentic.

"We're demanding a ransom payment in Bitcoin to prevent the publication of [Pornhub] data and delete the data," ShinyHunters told Reuters.

Mixpanel, however, denied the claims by ShinyHunters that the Pornhub data leak was d...