Comment on Plex got hacked.

• Smoogs@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes and no. hacking isn’t new. Everyone could get sued technically for security breaches for not taking enough interest in their own security.

  But then it’s ridiculous if you could sue your own grandma cuz you once used her computer to print your resume and because she uses default passwords now someone has all your info you had from anything you left behind.

  Ransom and hacking is pretty common unfortunately in the industry. And it is in part on the user to also take practices to protect themselves if they haven’t enabled 2F yet. And there’s way more you can do where you make email masks now and simply do not fill in with your accurate information like don’t use your real name.and use a VPN. Store stuff on ext drives and less on clouds that don’t use e2e encryption

  I don’t know if it’s perfect but as a user just always have it back in your mind that your information can be obtained(if you ever used a web service to check your info on the dark web, this is pretty much going to be a given) . And it probably has. So maybe at least you can try to control what gets obtained.

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  • AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In some ways 2fa is a weak spot even disregarding recovery processes being open to social engineering, now you’re giving a verified identifier uniquely tied to you

    I generate unique email addresses and passwords for every account but can’t realistically do that with phone numbers

    2fa by sms or voice isn’t especially secure anyway since you’re open to sim attacks and social engineering. I have a lot more hope for Passkeys but don’t really trust the practical advice arts of managing them yet

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• postmateDumbass@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Depends on how good the lawyers were that wrote the thing you said you read when signing up.

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