{"id":621052,"date":"2023-03-23T09:48:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T14:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/lionsgate-streaming-platform-leaks-data-of-37-million-users\/"},"modified":"2023-03-23T09:48:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T14:48:39","slug":"lionsgate-streaming-platform-leaks-data-of-37-million-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/23\/lionsgate-streaming-platform-leaks-data-of-37-million-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionsgate streaming platform leaks data of 37 million users"},"content":{"rendered":"<article aria-label=\"article\" data-id=\"EnRyPTSKPQE6AvdCKyJmE8\">\n<header>\n<nav aria-label=\"Breadcrumbs\">\n<ol>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\" aria-label=\"Return to Home\">Home<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\" aria-label=\"Return to News\">News<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/computing\" aria-label=\"Return to Computing\">Computing<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n<\/header>\n<section>\n<div itemprop=\"image\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n<div>\n<picture><source type=\"image\/webp\" alt=\"Data Breach\" onerror=\"if(this.src &#038;&#038; this.src.indexOf('missing-image.svg') !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)\"   data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SEXM8ah9EKKpBKB22d7Ak3.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SEXM8ah9EKKpBKB22d7Ak3.jpg\"><source type=\"image\/jpeg\" alt=\"Data Breach\" onerror=\"if(this.src &#038;&#038; this.src.indexOf('missing-image.svg') !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)\"   data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SEXM8ah9EKKpBKB22d7Ak3.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SEXM8ah9EKKpBKB22d7Ak3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SEXM8ah9EKKpBKB22d7Ak3-320-80.jpg\" alt=\"Data Breach\" onerror=\"if(this.src &#038;&#038; this.src.indexOf('missing-image.svg') !== -1){return true;};this.parentNode.replaceChild(window.missingImage(),this)\"   data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SEXM8ah9EKKpBKB22d7Ak3.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SEXM8ah9EKKpBKB22d7Ak3.jpg\"><\/picture>\n<\/div>\n<p><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/SEXM8ah9EKKpBKB22d7Ak3.jpg\"><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"600\"><br \/>\n<meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"338\"><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\">\n<span itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Shutterstock)<\/span><br \/>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Video streaming platform Lionsgate Play exposed sensitive data on millions of its users, cybersecurity researchers from Cybernews found.<\/p>\n<p>The website&#8217;s team <a href=\"https:\/\/cybernews.com\/security\/lionsgate-data-leak\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cybernews.com\/security\/lionsgate-data-leak\/\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a><span> (opens in new tab)<\/span> Lionsgate&#8217;s platform kept an unprotected ElasticSearch instance, containing 20GB of server logs with roughly 30 million entries. Some of the data dates back to May 2022, and included user IP addresses as well as information on user devices, operating systems, and web browsers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While this is not exactly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/best\/best-identity-theft-protection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">personally identifiable information<\/a><span> (opens in new tab)<\/span>, it can still be used by threat actors to conduct intrusions, the researchers said.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"possible-authentication-secrets\">Possible authentication secrets<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cIt can be useful in targeted attacks, especially when combined with other leaked or publicly available information,\u201d Cybernews\u2019 team said in its report.<\/p>\n<p>By knowing the IP addresses, the attackers can deliver custom-built malicious payloads to the targets, they added.<\/p>\n<p>But this is not the only data that was leaked via ElasticSearch. Usage data, such as content titles, IDs, and search queries, were also leaked. This data is usually used by analysts to track the platform\u2019s and content\u2019s performance. Furthermore, researchers discovered unidentified hashes with logged HTTP GET requests, which are user-made requests for data, stored on the server.<\/p>\n<p>While the researchers couldn\u2019t say what the hashes are used for, they did say they contain more than 156 characters, meaning they were supposed to stay unchanged for long.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHashes didn\u2019t match any commonly used hashing algorithms. Since these hashes were included in the HTTP requests, we believe they could have been used as secrets for authentication, or just user IDs,\u201d said researchers.<\/p>\n<p>When reached out to by the researchers, Lionsgate responded by closing the open instance. However, an official statement is yet to be made.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Streaming platforms are popular targets among cybercriminals. Before Lionsgate Play, hackers managed to breach Plex, START, and Carbon TV.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/best\/password-manager\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">best password managers<\/a><span> (opens in new tab)<\/span> right now<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" data-reactroot id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent\">\n<section>\n<p>Sign up to the TechRadar Pro newsletter to get all the top news, opinion, features and guidance your business needs to succeed!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div data-reactroot id=\"slice-container-authorBio\">\n<p>Sead is a seasoned freelance journalist based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He writes about IT (cloud, IoT, 5G, VPN) and cybersecurity (ransomware, data breaches, laws and regulations). In his career, spanning more than a decade, he\u2019s written for numerous media outlets, including Al Jazeera Balkans. He\u2019s also held several modules on content writing for Represent Communications.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/lionsgate-streaming-platform-leaks-data-of-37-million-users\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Margarete Coby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home News Computing (Image credit: Shutterstock) Video streaming platform Lionsgate Play exposed sensitive data on millions of its users, cybersecurity researchers from Cybernews found.The website&#8217;s team found (opens in new tab) Lionsgate&#8217;s platform kept an unprotected ElasticSearch instance, containing 20GB of server logs with roughly 30 million entries. 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