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2015 — In July 2015, the discussion forum for Plex media centr…

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Data compromised

Email addresses, IP addresses, Passwords, Usernames,

Technical writeup

In July 2015, the discussion forum for Plex media centre was hacked and over 327k accounts exposed. The IP.Board forum included IP addresses and passwords stored as salted hashes using a weak implementation enabling many to be rapidly cracked.

Root cause

Data breach

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