Important Notice of Security Incident
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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 ...

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.

  • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    If they were hashed then they were likely salted too, not much reason to not do both. Especially since they said “in accordance with best practices”, otherwise they’re just lying lol. They probably just didn’t want to make the announcement too technical.