Sounds like nothing. Wired should just respond to them "do it"
That would probably piss them off so hard.
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2025
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the breach appears to be legitimate and includes email addresses, along with optional fields such as first and last name, phone number, physical address, gender, and date of birth — although many of these fields appear to be empty.
So, this may be the most inconsequential leak in a long time. Grats to Conde Nast for not storing a zillion pieces of data on all their customers.
I have a wired account and I pulled up my details, since I remember almost subscribing, but bailing a few years back. All they got from me is a unique email address.
The hack affects all Condé Nast entities as well
It doesn't affect Ars Technica:
The hacker also says that they will release an additional 40 million records for other Condé Nast properties, including our other sister publications Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and more. Of critical note to our readers, Ars Technica was not affected as we run on our own bespoke tech stack.
"Massive"
Okay... so?
Never.Give.Companies.Real.Info.
So uh, when you buy something online... Where do you deliver it to, and how confused is the ups driver that you keep sending packages to 123 Fake Street for the last decade?
I grew up with phone books having names and addresses of everyone, so it feels less bad to have that released. The rest is fake though... birth date, etc.
You can rent a PO box or private mailbox service.
Honestly, I know a lot of people that do, but delivery address is less of a problem than other personal information.
I always make fake derivative versions of my names for anywhere I but from so I can tell who is selling my information and not buy from them anymore. The address matters less. I'm not avoiding the government and "hiding out" fo fuck's sake, I'm just avoiding having my data leaked like this. Any number of fake names that like up on the same address also dilutes these data sets the shady dealers try and ship around. The more names at any single address reduce the confidence of its accuracy, and therefore price.
Everything goes to my alter-ego, Junky Brewster.
Or mine: Ron Jeremy.