eBay Hacked - Change your password

[czark]

Hi all,

In case you are not aware. eBay was hacked today. They have advised everyone to change their passwords.

Cheers

[stevo1962]

Hi all,

In case you are not aware. eBay was hacked today. They have advised everyone to change their passwords.

Cheers

I think this refers to when ebay was hacked in Feb/March but they cant confirm that financial details were hacked as these were encrypted

[czark]

Hi all,

In case you are not aware. eBay was hacked today. They have advised everyone to change their passwords.

Cheers

I think this refers to when ebay was hacked in Feb/March but they cant confirm that financial details were hacked as these were encrypted

Pretty sure this is a separate incident. All my personal detail are linked on eBay I won't risk it.
Better safe than sorry.

[JeffH]

22 May 2014 | 07:45AM EST Earlier today eBay Inc. announced it is aware of unauthorised access to eBay systems that may have exposed some customer information.

you will not be able to make a purchase or create new listings until you have changed your password.

[ausjack]

I changed mine as I've had the same password from 08 so thought it might be time

[robbiegal]

it was on the news today and millions of people's accounts have been hacked and ebay did not announce it until 2 weeks ago (USA- I think they said) but it was months ago that it happened

the issue for identity theft:-  is name, address and phone number & date of birth

plus ...... your ebay account is linked to paypal (well most are)

[ausproofs]

Yes guys, it is best to change your password. Also if you are like many others uses the same password, it is best to change your password elsewhere as well..

Better to be safe than sorry...

[JeffH]

Well, I have changed three eBay passwords for various family accounts.
None of them has yet received the promised email from eBay -but, if it took them 2 or 3 months to actually publicly issue a statement about the problem, I expect same day notification is too much to expect. I wonder if they have actually freezed bidding and listing until password has been changed? That could lose them a lot of money and generate a lot of disgruntled customers!

[stevo1962]

Well, I have changed three eBay passwords for various family accounts.
None of them has yet received the promised email from eBay -but, if it took them 2 or 3 months to actually publicly issue a statement about the problem, I expect same day notification is too much to expect. I wonder if they have actually freezed bidding and listing until password has been changed? That could lose them a lot of money and generate a lot of disgruntled customers!

To freeze bidding would be just like shooting yourself in the foot and ebay are much too greedy to do that

[robbiegal]

we got our e-mail within seconds

hope it was from ebay

I changed one thing in my account preferences 'allow third party access''
so I disable all of them
hope that I haven't beggared up anything!!

[Pedro]

Got an e-mail this morning re the recommended password change. :dodgy:

Pedro

[Nightparrot]

A reminder, if you use a sniping site, you need to change the pasword there as well.

[ausjack]

Well I'll B, finally got an email a week after I changed my pass word, ya on the ball ebay :dodgy:

[JeffH]

Two of the family accounts have had eBay email -several days after I changed passwords. Third account still waiting but, password already changed.
Is there any evidence listing and/or bidding have been blocked (as stated by eBay) where accounts have not had passwords changed?.................No, didn't think so!

[Nevol]

Finally got a message from Ebay today, password already changed, a bit tardy of them seeing it all occurred in late Feb early Mar.