Roku reports cyber breach impacting 576,000 accounts

Compromised data was used to make unauthorised purchases in fewer than 400 cases

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Roku reports cyber breach impacting 576,000 accounts
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Roku reports cyber breach impacting 576,000 accounts

Roku, a leading streaming service provider, has warned 576,000 of its users that their accounts have been compromised in a cyber breach discovered during an ongoing investigation into a previous intrusion from March.

Rather than directly compromising Roku's network through a security flaw, the hackers employed a "credential-stuffing" attack, the company said. This technique involves hackers using previously ...

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