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PLEX Confirmsf Data Hack, User Details, And Passwords Are Stolen
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2 years agoon
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Salman Ahmad
Passwords were taken, Plex confirms
(CTN News) – Users’ passwords and personal data have been stolen from media streaming platform Plex Click here to open in a new tab According to the company.
Plex sent users an email describing the situation and asking them to change their passwords as soon as possible.
There was a “limited subset” of accounts compromised, but the stolen data was “hashed and secured in accordance with best practices”.
Plex passwords.
More details have not been provided, such as how the breach occurred, how many users were affected, or whether or not the passwords were salted.
- Plex says it does not keep payment data, and whichever hole the threat actor crawled through was patched. All we know is that payment data was not stolen.
- The third party’s method of accessing “had already been addressed,” Plex said.
- Additionally, users were “kindly requested” to change their passwords, suggesting that the update isn’t mandatory.
- Even so, people rushed to change their login credentials, but many were unable to do so since servers collapsed.
- Plex’s cybersecurity issues have made headlines before. It was discovered in early 2021 that DDoS-for-hire services were exploiting UDP reflection/amplification vulnerabilities in Media Server systems.
- It isn’t the first time cybersecurity issues have made headlines. Some Plex Media Server security flaws were exploited by DDoS-for-hire services as a UDP reflection/amplification vector in early 2021.
- An immediate software patch was issued by the company to fix the problem.
- What does Plex actually do?
- Who invested in Plex?
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