Plex Hack Reveals Encrypted Usernames, Emails and Passwords

Streaming platform Plex today sent out an email to its customers to notify them of a security vulnerability. that could compromise your account information, including usernames, email addresses, and passwords.

And while there is no indication that the encrypted passwords have been exposed, Plex advises – as usual in such cases – all users to change their passwords immediately (which is how you change the password on your home router).

For those who don’t know, Plex is one of the largest media server apps available, used by approximately 20 million people to stream self-uploaded video, audio, and photos, in addition to the growing variety of content the service offers to its users. , subscribers.

The email says: “Yesterday we detected suspicious activity in one of our databases. We immediately launched an investigation and it turned out that a third party was able to access a limited set of data, including encrypted emails, usernames and passwords.“.

There is no confirmation that other personal account information has been compromisedand there is no mention in the security breach of access to private libraries (which may or may not contain pirated or confidential content).

The financial information also seems to be reliable, despite the lack of:”credit card and other payment details are not stored on our servers at all and were not vulnerable in this incident“.

And, to everyone’s relief, the cause of the breach was found and Plex took steps to prevent other users from exploiting the vulnerability.. “We have already reviewed the method this third party used to access the system and we are doing additional security checks.“.

If you have a Plex account, you should take action. You should also enable two-factor authentication if you haven’t already. Also, you should use a free or paid password manager to easily manage unique and hard to guess passwords.