Roku Says Cyberattack Breaches 576,000 Accounts

About 576,000 Roku accounts were compromised in a cyberattack, the company said, the second security breach for the streaming service this year, John Towfighi reported for CNN.

Hackers gained access to Roku user accounts through stolen login credentials. I Image: Roku

Hackers gained access to user accounts through stolen login credentials, Roku said in a blog post. The security breach was discovered while Roku monitored account activity after a cyberattack affected 15,000 accounts earlier this year.

In each instance, fraudsters used a cyberattack method known as credential stuffing: Hackers try login and password information leaked in one data breach on a variety of users’ accounts, exploiting people who use the same credentials across different accounts.

Experts recommend people use different passwords for each of their online accounts. Credentials used to access Roku accounts were likely from a data breach on a different site, the company said in a statement.s