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50¢ Buys You Someone Else's Password for Netflix, Spotify Or ...

posted by martyb on Thursday December 03 2015, @08:55AM   Printer-friendly

Phoenix666 writes:

Criminals are selling 'lifetime' Netflix, HBO, and cable sports streaming accounts for less than US$10 on sites hidden within Tor.

Premium sports accounts sell for about $10 while streaming TV can be bought for as low as 50 cents, far less than the $10 monthly subscription.

Comic fans can buy a stolen Marvel Unlimited lifetime account - meaning the victim is unlikely to shutter it - for 50 cents compared to the $10 monthly fee.

El Reg found the stolen accounts on the AlphaBay Marketplace accessible via the Tor network, on the back of the Intel report "The Hidden Data Economy" [pdf] which listed a few similar but more pricey offerings on another unnamed site.

Sellers are also flogging Premium Spotify, ComCast Xfinity, Uber, Apple, and Lynda training video accounts.

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  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Friday December 04 2015, @03:14PM

    by Wootery (2341) on Friday December 04 2015, @03:14PM (#271809)

    So you're just going to ignore the question of how someone might ever discover that their Netflix password has been compromised? How does that get us anywhere?

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