At the end of the year, some Netflix users received an e-mail that encouraged them to update their payment details.

According to the Ohio police department, this was actually a phishing attack aimed at extorting data.

In the e-mail scammers have informed their victims that there were errors regarding payments for the subscription plan on the site and encouraged users to update their billing data, for this they had to click on the “update account now button in the e-mail.

According to ESET, the link in the message redirected users to fraudulent login page, thanks to which the scammers could obtain personal data of Netflix subscribers.