During the USA holidays, hackers and cheaters tend to be unchained.

My netflix account was hacked but I tend to check it every day so no biggie.
I canceled the fake profile created by the hacker and changed my password.

This is simply a warning reminder that now thru New Years, you should take
extra precaution. Keep an eye on all your accounts. Change passwords.
Make passwords extra difficult to discovery.

From what I got off the search engines, one online publication say that Netflix did so to 'test' it's security ( but some way to do so ); I'll provide the article in question:

Reference source -- Netflix lets backend get hacked to explore future features- The Inquirer

Offhand, that's some way to 'add a feeling' this Christmas season *facepalm*

EDIT: Aside from the news link above, Netflix Blog mentions of it as well ( under the click-link "Netflix said in a blog post" -- The Netflix Tech Blog: Netflix Hack Day

oberder wrote: From what I got off the search engines, one online publication say that Netflix did so to 'test' it's security ( but some way to do so ); I'll provide the article in question:

Reference source -- Netflix lets backend get hacked to explore future features- The Inquirer

Offhand, that's some way to 'add a feeling' this Christmas season *facepalm*

EDIT: Aside from the news link above, Netflix Blog mentions of it as well ( under the click-link "Netflix said in a blog post" -- The Netflix Tech Blog: Netflix Hack Day

Those are articles from Feb of this year. I don't think that would have anything to do
with someone name Brittany setting up a profile in my netflix account. Then again,
who knows, since obviously netflix isn't informing their subscribers of what they are
doing!

Ooopsie, my bad there

In any case, a good password manager* would help ( though searching for the right one will be the chore, considering there are those as Proprietary/paid services, as well as open-source ) and a really long password to avoid what they call a dictionary and brute-force password cracking

*Can't mention names of the products or the publishers, since each have their pros and cons; though I'll provide a Wiki link to help out:

Reference source -- List of password managers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia