Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced

• xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The security thing is ironic because my personal Jellyfin server (nor anything else on it) has been hacked, but Plex itself has had their database leaked recently. It’s actually the main reason I switched because I don’t like their auth servers being a giant common target.

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  • kieron115@startrek.website ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    From their blog post about it:

    An unauthorized third party accessed a limited subset of customer data from one of our databases. While we quickly contained the incident, information that was accessed included emails, usernames, securely hashed passwords and authentication data. Any account passwords that may have been accessed were securely hashed, in accordance with best practices, meaning they cannot be read by a third party.

    The passwords were hashed and, I’m inferring from their language, salted per-user as well. Assuming a reasonable length password (complexity doesn’t matter much here, what we want is entropy) it would take a conventional computer tens to hundreds of millions of years to crack one user’s password.

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    • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’m not really worried about it. I changed my password and moved on. It’s just that hackers have every reason to try and exploit Plex, while individual servers are hardly worth someone’s time and effort to go after when the payoff is maybe 1-2 usernames and emails

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      • bookmeat@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Simply not true. There is no person out there deciding every fry is too small. They just pick an exploit and send some bots after it. Every target is a good target because every target is a platform for more. It’s currency. The discrimination happens at the userbase level which is why jellyfin will always be safe. Kidding 😂

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  • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    … my personal Jellyfin server (nor anything else on it) has been hacked…

    And I’ve never been attacked by a bear while wearing my goose feather headdress.

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    • xthexder@l.sw0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Call it survivorship/selection bias if you want, but basically every hack I’ve been exposed to is from centralized servers getting exploited that server millions of people. Plex, along with any other public facing service with lots of users, receives targeted attacks constantly. All my server receives is automated bots looking for 10-year-old Wordpress .php exploits (I don’t even run php on my server).

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