Did anyone hear of the Roku Hack
Did anyone get a message from Roku? I saw it on Tom's guide- nothing from Roku. it was all your information including cc, passwords. So disappointed. why cant these big companies figure out how to...
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StopTheFomo wrote:So Roku's recent data breach of over 15,000 users with their credit card information stored on Roku was compromised - therefore, there is indeed a "risk" which you so casually cast aside. If Roku requires CC information, at least require 2 factor authentication for increased security but guess what? There is no 2FA available and nothing indicates that there will be any 2 FA in the near future.
I don't cast it aside casually, but consider how many millions of Roku user accounts there are and a breach of 15,000 is well under 1% of the total. It's not nothing to the ones that were breeched, but an extremely small number. Roku does not require CC information, other than to initially set up a user account (I really wish they would simply stop requiring that). Once the account is created, the CC can be removed with no impact on using the device, other than not being able to purchase anything directly through Roku (which I don't do anyway). I agree that 2FA should be implemented on anything that stores personal financial information.
I just created an account at:
https://my.roku.com/signup/nocc
and wasn't asked for a payment method. That's the way I originally signed up for Roku around 2016, based on searching for: roku sign up no credit card
Cool, I didn't think that worked anymore. 🙂
