May 14th 2021 4:57 pm A Portland, Oregon, federal grand jury has charged a man for a scheme to steal and resell customer account details for streaming services including Netflix, Spotify Premium, and HBO Max. The indictment names Samuel Joyner and an accomplice, Evan McMahon of Sydney, Australia. It alleges that they operated an online service called “AccountBot,” through which users could pay a low fee to access stolen streaming service accounts. The allegations are a particularly bold example of a hacking risk that costs streaming services billions each year. AccountBot Sold Accounts as Low as $1.79 The indictment states that the AccountBot site claimed to have access to over 217,000 unique customer account credentials and to have served over 52,000 customers.