Disney’s Video Streaming Service Hotstar Halts Support for Safari Browser

Hotstar, India’s largest video streaming service with more than 300 million users, disabled support for Apple’s Safari web browser last week to mitigate a security flaw that allowed unauthorized usage of its platform, TechCrunch reports, citing sources. From the report: As users began to complain about not being able to use Hotstar on Safari, the company’s official support account asserted that “technical limitations” on Apple’s part were the bottleneck. “These limitations have been from Safari; there is very little we can do on this,” the account tweeted Friday evening. Sources at Hotstar told TechCrunch that this was not an accurate description of the event. Instead, company’s engineers had identified a security hole that was being exploited by unauthorized users to access and distribute Hotstar’s content — including the premium catalog. Hotstar, which assumes the global record for most concurrent views on a live event, is operated by Star India, a media conglomerate in India that was part of 20th Century Fox that Disney acquired earlier this year.