Ebay Compromised

[maxie]

BBC News - eBay makes users change their passwords after hack

 

[ThisIsMadness91]

Man, it seems everyone's been getting hacked over the last year.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I guess that explains the sudden surge in spam I had been getting. Curious, though; I never received anything from eBay about it.

 

[ThisIsMadness91]

They'll probably start notifying users soon.

 

[tannim]

if you log in once to ebay, it will tell you you MUST reset your password otherwise nobody will be able to use your account. If you log in twice without bothering, you'll be able to use your account normally.

Now that is what I call security.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

if you log in once to ebay, it will tell you you MUST reset your password otherwise nobody will be able to use your account. If you log in twice without bothering, you'll be able to use your account normally.

Now that is what I call security.

When I logged in this morning to change my password, I never got any message like that. It took me quite a while to find where I could change my password, then it took several tries to get it to take the change.

 

[tannim]

they were working on implementing a system throughout the day, the morning would have been too early for it to have been in place.

 

[Computer0304]

I think every time a company gets hacked, it is always a bigger one. If that is true, we are in trouble.

 

[pcunite]

I guess that explains the sudden surge in spam I had been getting. Curious, though; I never received anything from eBay about it.

You too? I thought it was just me. Literality since like two days ago SPAM has went from maybe 1 message a day to six.

 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I guess that explains the sudden surge in spam I had been getting. Curious, though; I never received anything from eBay about it.

You too? I thought it was just me. Literality since like two days ago SPAM has went from maybe 1 message a day to six.

Lucky you! I went from an average of two or three a day in my spam folder to 40-50 a day about five or six days ago. It went down to about 25 yesterday and it's at 17 right now.

 

[Computer0304]

Huh I only get spam at the maximum one per month so far, some years I did not get a single spam mail.

 

[ThisIsMadness91]

I guess I should count myself lucky. Back in January, I started getting about one spam message every week on the GMail account I set up three years ago (to replace the AOL account my dad set up for me sixteen years ago, which gets a lot more spam than that), which I assumed was due to Ubisoft getting hacked last year, but I haven't had any spam since March. At the risk of jinxing myself, I haven't had any spam recently.