3w ago

Plex Announcement: Important Notice of Security Incident

forums.plex.tv Important Notice of Security Incident

We have recently experienced a security incident that may potentially involve your Plex account information. We believe the actual impact of this incident is limited; however, action is required from you to ensure your account remains secure. What happened An unauthorized third party accessed a lim...

We have recently experienced a security incident that may potentially involve your Plex account information. We believe the actual impact of this incident is limited; however, action is required from you to ensure your account remains secure.

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Plex: requires external account to use their self hosted software.
Also Plex: oops lol
- Jellyfin looks better to people by the hour.
  
  I’m no Plex fanboy but from what I’ve read Jellyfin auth leaves a lot to be desired from a security standpoint, particularly if you are opening it to the web. And chances are if your jellyfin server was breached, you wouldn’t get an email about it.
  
  Until you try to share your library with someone and have to parse terms like reverse proxy or figure out how your mom can install a vpn on her Roku

I'm less fussed about a data breach that might require a password change than I am that 3rd parties have access to internal databases. Play history and library contents could be a lot of trouble for folks if that data is ever breached (assuming it is even kept by PleX which I hope it isn't).

I just need Plex to survive until I can replace it with Jellyfin.

I really don't understand all the hate. It's like this weird echo chamber where everybody's like fuck it I'm gone! Like you're all just waiting for a fucking reason to switch if you want to switch switch. Personally for people like me without the time or inclination Plex is a fucking godsend. So I have to change my password big deal.

Just deleted my account.
- What are you using in its place?
  Jellyfin isn’t any better once you share off your own network.
- Should've done that. Their password reset link did not work, had to sign in and find the password change settings myself. And now they require special character / caps / etc.

It's unfurtunate that Jellifin or Emby is not available on as much smart TV platforms as Plex. I tried Emby years ago and it was close to Plex ease of use, but it was still fairly new and not quite there and hopefully a lot better now.

When this happens, I always forget to change the password through the server/localhost URL. Always gets confusing when I don't.

Still gonna use plex. Still gonna lol at jellyplebs.

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