All Plex users should reset passwords in wake of data breach


Popular media server and streaming platform, Plex, warned its users about losing their sensitive data in a cyberattack, and urged them to update their passwords as a result.

In a forum post published on September 8, Plex said it recently experienced a security incident with “limited impact”, when an unauthorized third party accessed a subset of customer data. “While we quickly contained the incident, information that was accessed included emails, usernames, securely hashed passwords and authentication data,” the post reads.

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