The news is all over the network: many Netflix accounts have been hacked and the access data to those accounts is being used by other people. The multimedia content streaming service would not be the only one whose security would have been compromised and other similar ones would also be suffering the same attacks. In this case, it seems that there is no more problem than the fact that other people could be using the service, without other more sensitive data having been filtered, but it is still a serious problem that Netflix must solve and that if anyone has a problem account should immediately check if it has been affected. We give you the details below.
It is not difficult to find pages online that offer very cheap access to different streaming content services. It is not about being able to view multimedia content for free, but about using those services for a much lower price than the one usually charged. Obviously no one "gives hard to pesetas" (euros to cents if we update to our time) and those services that they offer really have a trick: are using other users' accounts that have been hacked and whose users do not know that this happens. How to detect if your account has been affected? There really is no official method to do it but we do have indirect data that we can use to find out.
The first thing you should do is access your account, see the profiles that you have created and see if there is a new profile that you did not know, or if in the list of episodes or movies seen there is one that you do not remember having seen. If it is your case, or it is not but You want to avoid any type of risk that occurs, access the Netflix settings from your account in a web browser and follow these steps:
- Sign out of all devices.
- Change password
With this you will have to again manually enter your account on all the devices you use with Netflix, but you can rest assured that no one is going to take advantage of your account that you religiously pay every month.
MMM. But you can't play on more screens than your subscription says (2-4-6, etc). The recommendations you say are fine, but only for a person who does not share their Netflix account. For those that do, the best way to know that there is an intruder on your account is by identifying the connected equipment. For example, I have my 2-screen subscription and I share my account with my family, then two will be able to play movies without problems, but the third one gets a message like this: «You cannot play on more than two screens at the same time, upgrade to 4 screens blah blah blah ", followed by that they show you the connected equipment and which movies are watching:" Juan-PC: Terminator 10 "," Lucho's iPad: The Little Mermaid ". If you come across unknown names pum! change the password and log out everywhere.
"The first thing you should do is access your account, see the profiles you have created and see if there is a new profile that you did not know"
I doubt very much that the intruder will create a new profile, since when entering Netflix the first thing it shows is that you select the profile. It is the most silly way to let yourself be discovered.
"Or if in the list of episodes or movies seen there are some that you do not remember having seen."
Like I said before, this is fine, but for someone who doesn't share their account.
Your article is not bad but it needs to be polished enough. Lucky
ilovespaol, I think it doesn't need that polished that much, if you have 2 screens, as long as you don't use them, Netflix allows certain non-"registered" devices to connect (read PCs, tablets, mobiles and / or some media centers).
In my case, when 2 devices are detected in USE, and I try to connect from a third device (in the latter) it notifies me that the 2 available connections are being used blah blah blah, but as long as there is availability anyone who has the possibility of accessing Netflix and I had my account, I would do it without me realizing it.
Well, something worrisome has happened to me today.
Today I had not connected at all because I was working. And when I get home and watch the viewing activity I see Narcos, I was surprised because I haven't seen it yet. So I went to "Last accesses to the account." And I see that today they had connected twice from an iPhone and once from a PC and yesterday with an iPad from Switzerland. More specifically Zurich, which I have been able to locate by IP.
I go to Profiles and I see that there is one that I did not have called Default, and when I enter I see that you have seen several chapters of Narcos. I have deleted that profile and changed the password to a longer and more complicated one. A bummer having to log in again on multiple devices.
Clearly someone has logged into my account and been using it today.
So be careful, watch out that there are many HDPs out there.