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Karna to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 months ago

Important Notice of Security Incident

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Important Notice of Security Incident

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Karna to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 months ago
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We have recently experienced a security incident that may potentially involve your Plex account information. We believe the actual impact of this incident is limited; however, action is required from you to ensure your account remains secure. What happened An unauthorized third party accessed a limited subset of customer data from one of our databases. While we quickly contained the incident, information that was accessed included emails, usernames, securely hashed passwords and authentication...

Additional read: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/plex-tells-users-to-reset-passwords-after-new-data-breach/

  • @AreaKode@lemmy.world
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    26•10 months ago

    Still, always good practice to change your password after this sort of leak. However unlikely it is that someone could access your account, it’s never a bad idea.

    • @FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
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      6•10 months ago

      If you use a unique password and have 2FA on there’s no real need, but yeah it can’t hurt.

      • @TieDyePie@lemmy.world
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        0•10 months ago

        I bet the 2FA secret was leaked too though…

        • @FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
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          1•10 months ago

          securely hashed passwords and authentication data.

          Right there in the announcement.

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