Plex Urges Password Resets Following Data Breach

Popular streaming platform Plex on Monday issued an urgent warning that user information has been compromised in a data breach.

“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 data,” Plex said.

The streaming platform says the impact from the incident is believed to be limited, and the hackers should not be able to crack the hashed passwords, but urged users to take immediate action to secure their accounts.

“If you use a password to sign into Plex: We kindly request that you reset your Plex account password immediately by visiting https://plex.tv/reset. When doing so, there’s a checkbox to ‘Sign out connected devices after password change’, which we recommend you enable,” Plex said.

By checking the box, users will be automatically ...