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.

Substack said that customer data was accessed in October 2025, but wasn't discovered until early February.

The hacker claims to have stolen nearly 700,000 Substack user records, including email addresses and phone numbers.

Substack’s move into comic book publishing went about as well as Marvel’s 2017 decision to make Captain America a Nazi. A big reason why: Nick Spencer, the same controversial comics writer who penned ...

Substack said that it will remove some publications that support Nazis from its services after backlash over the company’s initial refusal to remove accounts that endorse Nazi ideology, Platformer ...

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There aren’t many platforms left on the internet that protect free speech and encourage the exchange of ideas. Social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube have all de-platformed and ...

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Well, shit. I had several Substack subscriptions that I enjoyed. However, continuing to read those subscriptions would be like continuing to go to a Nazi bar because there are some entertaining ...

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I dunno about "decrease", but more liberals used to hold up the Voltairian* ideal of "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." It's how we distinguished ...