It has been one of those days. Plex has been hacked AGAIN and now we all need to do the whole song and dance regarding changing passwords and reclaiming servers.
- Log out of plex.tv
- Log out of your local plex account ([local IP:32400/web])
- Stop Plex
- Open Preferences.xml
- Remove everything between the quotes at the following items: PlexOnlineName, PlexOnlineEmail, PlexOnlineToken and PlexOnlineHome which may or may not exist at all.
- Save the file
That’s part one. Onwards to part two:
- Goto https://plex.tv/claim
- Copy the token
- Open the terminal of your plex server
- type the following
curl -X POST 'http://127.0.0.1:32400/myplex/claim?token=PASTEYOURTOKENHERE'
- Press enter and wait
- Did it spew out a whole lotta text after half a minute or so? Nice.
- Start your plex server
- Log back in
- Win.
