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OT. EBAY hacked.

There is a notice on their homepage saying all users should change their passwords.

Reply to
Dean Hoffman
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Actually, there is NO SUCH MESSAGE on their home page nor in any messaging to their registered users as of 5:55AM, CDST, today.

If you, Dean, received an email notifying you of this "hack" I suspect that you were duped by a phishing expedition and have given up your own password to ebay.

Reply to
Unquestionably Confused

Well, I just looked at their homepage again. It is there. I clicked a couple links to look at some listings. That part seems to be working also. I didn't receive emails about the hack. I typed Ebay hack into Bing search. There are several references to it. Among those is CNN, MSN, and ABC. It's possible they've all been duped.

Reply to
Dean Hoffman

Unquestionably Confused wrote in news:537dd752$0$58389 $ snipped-for-privacy@ngroups.net:

There certainly is. If you've disabled Javascript, you won't see it though.

Reply to
Doug Miller

My apologies... I see what you mean about everybody and their brother talking it up.

Still, I looked high and low on ebay.com and there was no obvious mention made of a problem UNTIL I clicked on my personal account and attempted to modify my password. Only THEN did a box pop up suggesting that I change my password due to the hack.

Stupid Ebay

Reply to
Unquestionably Confused

They have a message service that sends me "offers" frequently , I wonder why they didn't share this important info with all users thru that system ... I did change mine after checking it out .

Reply to
Terry Coombs

Doug Miller wrote in news:XnsA33549DC6FEC9dougmilmaccom@78.46.70.116:

Here is some of the text of the hack notice on eBay's home page:

"On Wednesday, we announced that we are asking all eBay users to change their password. This is because of a cyberattack that compromised our eBay user database, which contained your encrypted password.

"Because your password is encrypted (even we dont know what it is), we believe your eBay account is secure. But we dont want to take any chances. We take security on eBay very seriously, and we want to ensure that you feel safe and secure buying and selling on eBay. So we think its the right thing to do to have you change your password. And we want to remind you that its a good idea to always use different passwords for different sites and accounts. If you used your eBay password on other sites, we are encouraging you to change those passwords, too."

Reply to
Tegger

Unquestionably Confused wrote in news:537ddda1$0$58399 $ snipped-for-privacy@ngroups.net:

Ebay isn't the stupid one here. The notice appears, very prominently, at the top of the page as soon as

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Reply to
Doug Miller

My saved password logged me in at the same time the page came up, but I also didn't have to try to modify my password.

At the same time the first screen came up, it included a big orange, black, and white box that said IMPORTANT PASSWORD UPDATE. To protect the security and privacy of our customers we're asking all Ebay users to reset their passwords. Learn more.

So what might happen to me if I don't do so? I have id/password combinations and I can't think too much today.

BTW, the news was on NPR too.

Reply to
micky

I never get offers on the webpage. I don't think I get them by mail either.

You still have a good point. One can go months without logging into ebay, but only days without reading email.

What might happen to me if I don't. Apparently they still won't have my paypal login or password, and it's hard to get them to ship anywhere but my own home, so what can hackers do to me? Buy something but not pay for it?

Reply to
micky

micky wrote in news:dhtrn9dpkl3psft1klkschuihuks5lansu@

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What might happen if you don't? If you don't have a strong password, it's entirely possible that it will be decoded, someone will log in to your ebay account, and buy a boatload of stuff on your PayPal.

Reply to
Doug Miller

micky wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Think about it a bit... if they can log in as you, they can change the ship-to address.

Reply to
Doug Miller

Ebay said that Paypal passwords hadn't been hacked.

There's a close connection between ebay and paypal on our computers, because when we click on the paypal button, it loads, from one's own computer, the paypal userid and password. But hackers' computers don't do that. They only have what they've stolen. They don't know what paypal account is usually used with what ebay account.

Right?

Reply to
micky

If you've ever tried to change the ship-to address, it's not that easy. It has to match the address on the charge card or maybe be grandfathered in if used before they had that matching rule.

Reply to
micky

The situation has been discussed on a number of blogs and several nation news stations. Not to mention a few private list I sub to on the subject.

True or not the simplest solution is to go to eBay's web site and manually change your PW. Do/don't take the precautions -- your money/your options.

Reply to
NotMe

Maybe for you it does, but not for me.

Jon

Reply to
Jon Danniken

Hi, As soon as I read about it, I changed my PW.

Reply to
Tony Hwang

Jon Danniken wrote in news:lll5o2$14s$2 @speranza.aioe.org:

Got javascript disabled in your browser?

Reply to
Doug Miller

Doesn't come up for me either , with a clean install of IE8 that's never been tweaked . Nor with the Firefox browser that's my default .

Reply to
Terry Coombs

Nope.

Reply to
Jon Danniken

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