Stop Sharing your Streaming Service Accounts Immediately

Stop Sharing your Streaming Service Accounts Immediately

You might want to reconsider sharing the login details of your steaming service account with friends and family to avoid the risk of falling victim to fraud or identity theft at the hands of tech-savvy organized crime groups.
The warning comes as thousands of Disney Plus customers reported hackers were accessing their profiles, changing their login credentials and selling their accounts on the dark web.
Disney was adamant it did not suffer a data breach, saying the login details were "leaked from previous breaches at other companies, pre-dating the launch of (the streaming service)".

The so-called "credential stuffing" attack is a popular technique used by hackers who obtain passwords and usernames via malicious means before seeing if those details will gain access to accounts on different websites.
This is achieved by applying through perseverance –  trying various combinations of usernames and passwords until access is granted.   
Cybersecurity expert from F5 Networks Jason Baden said it was a "very bad idea" to share passwords or to use similar login credentials across different services.
"When credentials are compromised on one system, there is a very good likelihood that these same credential pairs, or similar variations, will work across other systems," he told nine.com.au.

"People tend to reuse passwords for convenience - imagine trying to remember unique passwords for all the different applications we use in our daily lives.
"However, attackers understand this and seek to abuse this human failing."
Mr. Baden said cybercriminals use advanced automation software to gain access to numerous accounts.
"Hackers routinely use large data sets of compromised credential - often bought on the dark web or through traditional organized crime networks - combined with automation to test these compromised credentials across other services on a mass scale," he said.

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https://www.9news.com.au/technology/netflix-disney-plus-password-sharing-hackers-exploit-streaming-services/ce07fabe-64a8-43a1-aa5b-76bef5885f6c