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streaming platform service Roku
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announced today the discovery of a data
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breach that has compromised 576,000
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accounts this after a hack last month
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that impacted 15,000 accounts the
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company says they have reset passwords
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for affected accounts and have notified
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customers Tech reporter Emma Roth is
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following this story closely for The
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Verge thanks so much for being with us
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so Roku has said in some instances
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unauthorized purchases were made walk us
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through what Roku has uncovered about
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breach yeah so this just comes about a
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month after they discover that 15,000
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accounts were affected by a breach and
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now they Jus discovered another breach
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affecting about half a million people
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and they did say that only about 400
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accounts um hackers managed to get into
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to make purchases so most people will
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likely not have had to deal with that
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fortunately but Roku is taking
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precautions by resetting people's
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accounts and setting up two Factor
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authentication yeah Emma I mean what do
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people impacted need to
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know yeah no definitely um next time you
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log into Roku you're going to notice
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that you are going to have to reset your
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password and that you're going to have
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to set up two Factor authentication and
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that involves having um I believe Roku
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is having it connected to your email so
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you're going to have to verify your
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identity over email before um you are
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able to log in but fortunately um Roku
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says that no credit card information was
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exposed and that the Bad actors were
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only able to make purchases through the
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credit card on file they just weren't
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able to view the information a separate
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breach as you know happened last month
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Emma How concerned should Roku customers
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be over the security of their private
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information I think that um people just
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definitely have to be vigilant at this
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point um data breef are happening so
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much these days and it's really
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important to set up two Factor
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authentication and to make sure you
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don't reuse your passwords this
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particular data breach occurred because
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um people whose passwords had been
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exposed in the past um like the data the
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sorry the um hackers were able to get
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that information and reuse it for this
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particular um hack allowing them to gain
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access to accounts wow so people really
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do have to be Vigilant Emma Roth for us
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Emma thank you very much thank you
