Account, payments & subscriptions

[shelley95403]

I got a new Roku and was upset that I had to put payment information in just to create an account.  This morning I see an article of a data security breach.  I should've returned it and not set up an account because it felt very uncomfortable to me to have to do this.  I should've trusted my gut, my payment information is important and shouldn't be required to use their product when I'm not required to buy anything from them to set up the Roku.  That's wrong.

[renojim · Accepted solution]

@shelley95403, you can always remove your payment information and while it isn't obvious, it's possible to create a Roku account without entering any payment information.  The so-called "data breach" was simply hackers taking advantage of people that use the same email and password everywhere.  From everything I've seen, no one's payment information was leaked (try to view your own payment information attached to your account), but once someone logs into your account they can make purchases and do anything else just the same as you could.  If I was naive enough to use the same email address and password everywhere I'd be far more worried about other accounts than my Roku account.