{"id":54983,"date":"2022-08-24T13:27:15","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T13:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/change-your-password-right-now\/"},"modified":"2022-08-24T13:27:15","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T13:27:15","slug":"change-your-password-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/change-your-password-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Change your password right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"_r\">\n<div class=\"_tl\" style=\"max-width:1200px\"><picture class=\"_sf\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;aspect-ratio:1200 \/ 675\"><source sizes=\"(min-width: 64rem) 51.25rem, 80vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/plex-on-phone-with-plex-on-tv-as-background.jpg.webp 1778w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/plex-on-phone-with-plex-on-tv-as-background-300w-170h.jpg.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/plex-on-phone-with-plex-on-tv-as-background-1200w-675h.jpg.webp 1200w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/plex-on-phone-with-plex-on-tv-as-background-768w-432h.jpg.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/plex-on-phone-with-plex-on-tv-as-background-1536w-864h.jpg.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/plex-on-phone-with-plex-on-tv-as-background-16w-9h.jpg.webp 16w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/plex-on-phone-with-plex-on-tv-as-background-32w-18h.jpg.webp 32w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/plex-on-phone-with-plex-on-tv-as-background-28w-16h.jpg.webp 28w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/plex-on-phone-with-plex-on-tv-as-background-56w-31h.jpg.webp 56w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/plex-on-phone-with-plex-on-tv-as-background-64w-36h.jpg.webp 64w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/plex-on-phone-with-plex-on-tv-as-background-712w-400h.jpg.webp 712w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/plex-on-phone-with-plex-on-tv-as-background-1000w-562h.jpg.webp 1000w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/plex-on-phone-with-plex-on-tv-as-background-792w-446h.jpg.webp 792w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/plex-on-phone-with-plex-on-tv-as-background-1280w-720h.jpg.webp 1280w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/plex-on-phone-with-plex-on-tv-as-background-840w-472h.jpg.webp 840w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/plex-on-phone-with-plex-on-tv-as-background-1340w-754h.jpg.webp 1340w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/plex-on-phone-with-plex-on-tv-as-background-770w-433h.jpg.webp 770w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/plex-on-phone-with-plex-on-tv-as-background-356w-200h.jpg.webp 356w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/plex-on-phone-with-plex-on-tv-as-background-675w-380h.jpg.webp 675w\" type=\"image\/webp\"\/><\/picture>\n<div class=\"_2l _ul\">\n<p>Dhruv Bhutani \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_4g _q _ab\">\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Media server app Plex has announced a possible data breach.<\/li>\n<li>Emails, usernames, and encrypted passwords were accessed as part of the incident.<\/li>\n<li>The company is requiring a password reset for all accounts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_q _ab\">\n<p>Plex is one of the most prominent media streaming and media server apps around, allowing you to access your personal media content over a network and offering its own streaming library as well.  However, the service has just announced a \u201cpotential data breach\u201d and is requiring a password reset for all accounts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_q _ab\">\n<p>\u201cWe want you to be aware of an incident involving your Plex account information yesterday.  While we believe the actual impact of this incident is limited, we want to ensure you have the right information and tools to keep your account secure,\u201d the company wrote in an email sent out to some users.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_q _ab\">\n<p>The team said that it discovered suspicious activity in one of its databases yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We immediately began an investigation and it does appear that a third party was able to access a limited subset of data that includes emails, usernames, and encrypted passwords.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The company added that it&#8217;s requiring a password reset for all accounts even though they were \u201chashed and secured in accordance with best practices.\u201d  Plex added that payment data isn&#8217;t stored on its servers and therefore wasn&#8217;t compromised as part of this breach.  It further noted that it&#8217;s already addressed the method that was used in the breach and was conducting further security reviews.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_q _ab\">\n<p>So what else can you do about it?  Well, the Plex team said you should also tick the checkbox on the password reset page that signs you out of all your devices after a password change.  The company adds that users should also enable two-factor authentication and that it won&#8217;t ever ask for your password or credit card info via email.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"_q _ab\">\n<p>It&#8217;s also worth noting that some Plex users on the Android Authority team haven&#8217;t received an email notifying them of the breach.  We&#8217;re guessing that this alert is being sent out gradually due to the fact that the email specifically says passwords for all accounts will be reset.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><button type=\"button\" class=\"_Ki _g _h\">Comments<svg class=\"_Yc\" viewbox=\"0 0 1780 1017.4\"><path d=\"M1742.9 37.2l-.3-.3c-49.6-49.4-129.8-49.2-179.2.3L890.5 710.4v.2L216.7 37.4C193 13.9 160.9.7 127.5.6 57.3.4.2 57.2 0 127.5c-.1 33.8 13.2 66.3 37.1 90.2l768 766.3c50.1 45.8 127.3 44.2 175.4-3.7l762.4-763c49.5-49.8 49.5-130.3 0-180.1z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhruv Bhutani \/ Android Authority TL;DR Media server app Plex has announced a possible data breach. Emails, usernames, and encrypted passwords were accessed as part of the incident. The company is requiring a password reset for all accounts. Plex is one of the most prominent media streaming and media server apps around, allowing you to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/change-your-password-right-now\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Change your password right now<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1530,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/chrome-just-got-a-big-upgrade-to-make-your-life-easier\/","url_meta":{"origin":54983,"position":0},"title":"Chrome just got a big upgrade to make your life easier","date":"July 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Google just announced several updates to its Password Manager service in a blog post (opens in new tab). 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