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Plex Security Incident

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104 points andyexeter | 1 comments | 08 Sep 25 22:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.371s | source
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imglorp ◴[08 Sep 25 23:04 UTC] No.45175285[source]▶
> An unauthorized third party accessed a limited subset of customer data from one of our databases

How could only a subset be affected? Any architecture other than a "users" db table wouldn't make sense.

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1. kingnothing ◴[08 Sep 25 23:09 UTC] No.45175330[source]▶
It's easy to imagine Plex has some db sharding going on at their scale, or that they host in multiple geographic regions for regional compliance, or on multiple cloud providers.