Per South African tech publication MyBroadband, hackers recently got into MultiChoice’s streaming platform Showmax and made public over 27,000 usernames and passwords of people who use the platform.
MultiChoice confirmed that the usernames belong to their customers, but added that they have automatically logged the affected customers out of their Showmax accounts.
MultiChoice also claims that the data wasn’t taken from its platform. MyBroadband suggests that the usernames and passwords were taken by criminals using a method called brute force attack.