Cyber-attack floods China's Kuaishou livestreams with pornography
In December 2025, Chinese video platform Kuaishou was hit by a cyber-attack that flooded its livestreams with pornographic content. Kuaishou disclosed the attack, after which its share price fell to around a five-week low.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Kuaishou
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Mass distribution of pornographic content in livestreams
- Cause / method
- Cyber-attack targeting the livestreaming service
- Location
- China
Timeline
- Kuaishou disclosed a cyber-attack in which pornographic content was mass-distributed in livestreams.
- After the livestream cyber-attack, Kuaishou's share price fell to around a five-week low.
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