P
P
Breaches
1
1 verified
Records Exposed
327K
Total across all breaches
Data Types Leaked
4
1 high risk
Latest Breach
2015
Plex

Breach History

Plex
Jul 2015Critical
327.3K
Records exposed
4
Data types leaked
Verified
Status

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.

Exposed Data Types
Email addressesIP addressesPasswordsUsernames
Incident Status
Data breachYes
Data brokerNo
Policy contradictionsNo
Exposed Data Types
Email addressesLow risk
IP addressesMedium risk
PasswordsHigh risk
UsernamesLow risk