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Over 15,000 hacked Roku accounts sold for 50¢ each to buy hardware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

Roku may dispute that the breach and the TOS change are related, but the timing is certainly suspect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Odds on this being an internal Roku ploy to pump some sales numbers for a quarter? 😂