What is the new Disney+ subscription ID? If you have also received the mysterious email with the cryptic code, you should not delete it because it is not spam.
Disney+ is currently sending emails to its customers that refer to the subscription ID of the user accounts. (Source: Screenshot: Netzwelt / Richard W. Schaber)
- Disney+ subscribers currently receive emails with a so-called subscription ID.
- According to the provider, the cryptic code is intended to secure accounts and verify them.
- Compare the subscription ID in the e-mail with that in your account – there should be incorrect data in circulation.
E-mails are currently circulating under the subject “Your Disney+ subscription ID” that send subscribers to the streaming service a cryptic code made up of numbers and letters. Some of the customers already suspected spam here – but it is an authentic message from the provider.
Wrong Disney+ subscription ID in the email
Whether the subscription ID in the e-mail is actually your own is another question – various users are already reporting that the character string in the e-mail does not match the subscription ID they received in the “Subscription details” is displayed in the account management of your streaming account.
Here you can clearly see that the subscription ID in the email does not match the character string stored in the streaming account. (Source: Screenshot: Netzwelt / Richard W. Schaber)
The test with an account from the Netzwelt editorial team also shows that the subscription ID sent in the e-mail does not match the one in the streaming service’s account management. But that’s not all of the mysteries.
Why is Disney+ referring to the subscription ID?
What Disney + aims to do with sending the subscription ID, apart from data protection, is not completely transparent. It is quite possible that the string of characters can be queried for verification during login. In this way, suspicious access after password theft could be controlled. But is there more to it than that?
Disney + is currently not really tracking or making it more difficult to share account passwords – but industry leader Netflix has already admitted that the use of individual streaming accounts with several households is noticeably painful for the big entertainment groups.
Whether Disney+ is now slowly introducing similar measures to Netflix is likely to become a subject of speculation due to the subscription ID email – after all, price increases for the streaming services Amazon Prime Video and Disney+ were initially preceded by seemingly harmless emails in which only changes announced in the fine print.
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