In an email to customers who run Plex servers at the large German hosting company Hetzner, Plex said that access will be blocked next month. It’s not clear if Hetzner is the only hosting company this applies to, but several customers confirmed that they received the same email.

Has anyone here on Lemmy got this notice? Self-hosting is still in the green, but with this precedent who knows what Plex could do later.

  • LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.ch
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    1 year ago

    It was a very old, unpatched Plex server running on hardware that had access to LastPass critical data.

    If you ran very old FOSS with unpatched vulnerabilities, you’d have the same problem. It wasn’t Plex that did it, it was unmaintained self-hosting.

    Plex has it’s problems, but this wasn’t one of them.