Has YOUR Netflix account been HACKED? How to find out and fix it

The hacked Netflix details are being distributed across the Dark Web

CYBERCRIMINALS are selling access to hacked Netflix accounts in seedy corners of the Dark Web – but how can you tell when your details have been compromised?

Hackers are increasingly selling access to stolen Netflix accounts, a new report from McAfee Labs research has claimed.

The hacked details are distributed across the Dark Web – a portion of the world wide web not indexed by search engines – and can sell for less than a dollar.

Meanwhile, the customers paying for Netflix often never know their details have been shared on the black market online.

But there is a way to find out when your details have been sold online.

The quickest way to check whether your details have appeared in any recent leaks or breaches is to navigate to haveibeenpwned.com.

The free web service trawls some 154 million leaked records and searches for a match with your email address.

Unfortunately this is not always effective – especially since haveibeenpwned.com only searches publicly available records.

It's possible your details have been stolen but not publicly leaked.

Another way to quickly tell when a stranger is using your Netflix account to watch movies and TV shows for free is within Netflix itself.

 

McAfee Labs research claims lifetime free access to Netflix is being sold online for less than a $1

Check your Recently Watched on the website, smart set-top box or smartphone app for any shows listed there that you are positive you did not watch.

If you see something you did not watch, it's possible someone else is using your details.

Fortunately Netflix offers a quick and simple solution to lock out the hackers.

Just navigate to your account page online and click Sign Out Of All Devices. Next, change the password associated with your account.

Always create a unique password for every one of your online accounts.

For example, take the first letter of each word in your favourite song lyric, phrase or poem – and use those letters, which appear like a random jumble, as your password.

A password manager is another way to generate and securely store unique passwords with letters, symbols and numbers.

However even these apps aren't always secure.