Plex's forum data is being held for ransom

[Jack]

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http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/2/8887303/plex-hack-password-breach-ransom

The movie streaming service Plex has been hacked, with an attacker attempting to hold the service for ransom, according to an email sent out to subscribers earlier today. The hackers claimed to have gained control of the server hosting user forums, and demanded a bitcoin payment to prevent the full release of the server's data. Plex confirmed independently that the server housing its forum and blog had been compromised, but said any associated passwords were hashed and salted, making them unusable without serious and sustained decryption efforts. The service declined to pay the ransom, automatically resetting passwords for any affected users.

"I gave them until the 3rd of this month to send 9.5 BTC," said the attacker in a message posted to Plex's hacked forum. "This ransom is still active and on the 3rd: if no BTC payment is made, the ransom wll go up by 5 BTC. Eventually if no BTC payment is made, the data will be released via multiple torrent networks and there will be no more plex.tv."


Read more: http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/2/8887303/plex-hack-password-breach-ransom

 

[Deleted member 178]

don't tell me they didn't have a backup server...

 

[Secondmineboy]

Thats my you should get a good AV, install updates and take backups.

You can even get like daily 500 GB Backups+Space from hosters like Hosteurope.com

 

[jamescv7]

Well no matter what, passwords will always an issue then next maintenance updates for forum which is a must to avoid any vulnerabilities that can pose security risk.