Over 15,000 hacked Roku accounts sold for 50¢ each to buy hardware

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Over 15,000 hacked Roku accounts sold for 50¢ each to buy hardware

Roku has disclosed a data breach impacting over 15,000 customers after hacked accounts were used to make fraudulent purchases of hardware and streaming subscriptions.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-15-000-hacked-roku-accounts-sold-for-50-each-to-buy-hardware/Open link View original on lemmy.zip

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Merlin

lemm.ee

Maybe that’s why they were trying to force their users to sign a new user agreement that wouldn’t allow users to sue them or something? I don’t recall the exact details but I remember it being very shady

WndyLady reply

lemm.ee

The article said it had a source linking the two events, then has a post-publication addendum that Roku denies any connection.

I agree with you that the timing is suspect.