Well. There’s a reason why Netflix is successful. They spent a lot of money and time operating as a tech-heavy company before becoming a content-heavy company. Just as an example, their Open Connect appliances (<a href="https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/" rel="nofollow">https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/</a>) are an impressive piece of technology that probably needed years of research.<p>Launching a streaming service sounds simple in the paper but there are hundreds of complexities under the hood that ensure availability, speed, security, and reliability.<p>If my Netflix experience wasn't as trivially smooth as it is (from a UX point of view) I wouldn’t pay for it.
Laughing at some of this reporting.<p>> More than 4,000 customer accounts appeared in the search<p>To clear this up:<p>No, not true. The software in the screenshot called Open Bullet and it's basically a request builder for Selenium (ok it's more than that but you get the idea). You add in lists of usernames/passwords (from database dumps) and it runs your script. You have success/fail reporting, and that's where you get "Hits: 4"<p>> Ads on the dark web for stolen Disney+ accounts<p>That's a sellers page from shoppy.gg — not the dark web.
They can still torrent the content, which is what I'm doing after I paid for the first month of Disney+ and then found out their DRM disallowed Linux because of "security levels".
I am sure Netflix and amazon prime users also reuse their passwords, but I haven’t yet heard about users having the Disney+ issues with these accounts.
yikes. It doesn't support the security feature of logging everyone out of the account? So if a someone gets access to your account they're in for good.
I recently had some suspicious activity on my HBO and Hulu accounts. I checked my email address on haveibeenpwned.com and found some pastebin links at the bottom from August 2019. Sure enough, my email and password for HBO were there in plain text along with many others. The format was like this:<p><pre><code> ================
notarealperson@email.com:password123
Subscription: Your HBO NOW subscription is billed through
[HBO]
Expiry Date: September 20, 2019
21 Days Remaining
</code></pre>
I haven't figured out the source yet. It's possible that someone just took these recent dumps and ran them against Disney+
> Disney+ fans without answers after thousands hacked<p>A google search of one of the email:password came up with a Soundcloud 2018 email:password dump.<p>Seems like a everyday dump of reused passwords.<p>That happens everyday for all the services.<p>Just seems like everyone wants to take down Disney. Like OMG that had an issue on the first day streaming!<p>I also want to see them fail, but for no good reason I just enjoy seeing people fail, I guess I'm not alone.
I thought Disney+ rollout would have no hiccups, because I thought Hotstar (I think it is mostly India based content) owned by Disney did quite well during the cricket world cup, in terms of live streaming (which I thought is more complex than streaming movies).<p>My respect for Netflix goes up each time a new streaming service has a hiccup.