Microsoft, Law Enforcement Disrupt Dorkbot Botnet (technet.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft said in a blog post Thursday that it aided law enforcement agencies in several regions to disrupt a 4-year-old botnet called Dorkbot. The botnet aims to steal login credentials from services such as Gmail, Facebook, PayPal, Steam, eBay, Twitter and Netflix and has infected one million computers worldwide. The company didn't provide details on how Dorkbot's infrastructure was disrupted.

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Re:Netflix

[ShaunC]

Can someone explain it to me how it hurts the Netflix user's account when it's stolen?

Depends on your definition of "hurt." By my own definition, it would "hurt" me if Netflix saw my account logging in from some other country and shut it down. Now I have to contact Netflix and see why my account isn't working, maybe spend awhile on the phone swearing up and down that I haven't given my password to some guy in Russia and I promise I'll make a 45-character passphrase. All of this takes time and effort. It's not nearly as severe as having credentials to a bank account stolen, but it's still "harm" as far as I'm concerned.