Hackers Infiltrate eBay: Time to Change Your Password - NBC News

[RamZar]

The breach first occurred in late February, but was only discovered two weeks ago.

http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/hackers-infiltrate-ebay-time-change-your-password-n111531

 

[JR88FAN]

Thanks for the heads up.....

 

[T Schloz]

Thanks, password changed.

Tom

 

[RamZar]

Fortunately, I had just changed passwords last month due to another cyber security alert: http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/huge-internet-security-flaw-puts-passwords-risk-n76311

 

[Invective]

Thanks for the heads up, changed mine!

 

[sechip]

Done!

 

[Marko3]

Yup...They hacked into my account 2 times. Once about a month ago we had some weird email's being sent out with a attachment to it. And another last week or so. Both time's we changed password and of coarse we didn't open attachment. I don't know what these guys are after. The latest hack came AOL sent me a notice that I violated there TOS agreement so I had to change that password as well.

These guys are a pain in the rear end

 

[RevDevil]

AOL sucks, period.

 

[craytab]

I saw this yesterday morning. Question is, why didn't ebay actually ask anyone to change their passwords? We have to hear about this through the news. It's called fleebay for a reason I guess. Oh, and ebay, no I would not like to link my ebay account with my paypal, so stop asking!

 

[Esav Benyamin]

For all I use my eBay account (two purchases) I should delete it. But I changed my password today.

They should definitely have emailed all of us.

 

[ptradeco]

Has anything been said about how the eBay hack affected PayPal?

 

[Britt_Askew]

Said Paypal was not affected

 

[RamZar]

Has anything been said about how the eBay hack affected PayPal?

"The company said hackers stole email addresses, encrypted passwords, birth dates, mailing addresses and other information, though no financial data, nor PayPal databases were compromised."

eBay hack, 2nd largest in U.S. history, leaves questions unanswered

 

[choombak]

Better description Q&A format http://www.ebayinc.com/in_the_news/story/faq-ebay-password-change

 

[Beard&Owl]

Yeah, my fleabay got hacked. I got a random woman, obviously a scammer, that was trying to send me money to my email but it wasn't from paypal. A bit later and I read in the news they got hacked and you needed to change your password. Next I checked my spam folder and WOWWIE!!!!!!! This really nice guy, who turns out to be a some kinda royalty, wants to send me a $400k check and if I cash it for him he promises to give me $175k. Sounds like a win win to me!

 

[Luis G.]

Wow. Thanks very much for the post. Changed my PW's.

 

[RevDevil]

For all I use my eBay account (two purchases) I should delete it. But I changed my password today.

They should definitely have emailed all of us.

For their lack of professional courtesy, I am going to not pay a 3% fee and allow someone a gift payment.
That'll teach em.

 

[RamZar]

Related news:

• Scams expected to hit customers hard after eBay data breach
• Your eBay Password For Sale? How, Where And Why
• eBay Under Investigation for Security Practices After Massive Breach

 

[C_Becker]

I got an email from them today, but its been on the front page for a couple of days

 

[RamZar]

I got an email from them today, but its been on the front page for a couple of days

That's a big problem but simultaneously they were dealing on scamming (phishing) expeditions. Unfortunately, there's a huge lagtime between the event and exposure to media and so far it shows major shortcomings on the part of eBay. There'll be investigations by major regulatory entities in US & EU.