topic Re: New Sign-in Activity warning in Technical Issues

New Sign-in Activity warning

agirua — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 01:47:38 GMT

I have suddenly had a problem signing into ebay for the past week or two, and I am receiving New Sign-in Activity warning emails whenever I attempt to sign in.using a bookmark and saved password in Mozilla Firefox with Windows 7. I've discovered a work around by changing some of my security settings in Firefox, but this doesn't particularly suit me. Can any one throw some light on this problem? Thanks.

Re: New Sign-in Activity warning

cezm — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 01:58:40 GMT

@agirua wrote:
I have suddenly had a problem signing into ebay for the past week or two, and I am receiving New Sign-in Activity warning emails whenever I attempt to sign in.using a bookmark and saved password in Mozilla Firefox with Windows 7. I've discovered a work around by changing some of my security settings in Firefox, but this doesn't particularly suit me. Can any one throw some light on this problem? Thanks.

Not sure, but possibly something to do with Windows 7 end of life?

Re: New Sign-in Activity warning

twyngwyn — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 02:01:25 GMT

I've had 2....1 on the 25th Jan, 1 on the 26th Jan...both via eBay messaging....but have not had an issue signing in....message saying:

We noticed recent sign-in activity on your account using a new device.
Signed in since
26/01/2021 11:15 AM
Device
Windows (Chrome 88.0)
Approximate location
Meadows, South Australia, Australia
If this was you, you're all set!

The thing is, it was me signing in, both times (and I'm nowhere near Meadows, SA)

Re: New Sign-in Activity warning

sandypebbles — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 02:06:08 GMT

I had a similar thing, but it was Facebook

All the right info except my location was about 300km away

Also on the 25th, for the first time

Windows blep ???

Re: New Sign-in Activity warning

pauls1239 — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 05:08:36 GMT

Had the same thing. Although i didn't want to, i changed my password which seems to have solved the issue.

Re: New Sign-in Activity warning

pauls1239errorsandvarieties — Sun, 31 Jan 2021 01:24:10 GMT

spoke too soon.... Password keeps changing..... Could be a hack but my guess is Ebay is stuffing around. Lots of changes going on....Of course it's not happening to everybody....Have done all the obvious and suggested fixes but nothing seems to work.....Can't contact ebay to find out...It's a dogs breakfast at the moment,,but nothing has happened yet!!!

Re: New Sign-in Activity warning

agirua — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 04:31:27 GMT

Try disabling your antivirus. Worked for me

Re: New Sign-in Activity warning

agirua — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 04:38:13 GMT

So far, so good. Just have to remember to enable my AV afterwards....

Re: New Sign-in Activity warning

tickford-t3 — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 04:31:47 GMT

Its nothing to be concerned about its to do with your internet service provider logging you in to the internet by finding the quickest etc access point which maybe not where you are, it happens frequently with us we are in Morawa WA and we always being routed thru Sydney so eBay recognises the change and sends us the activity warning

Re: New Sign-in Activity warning

nearly_invisible — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 06:38:13 GMT

I first encountered that message five days ago, for no obvious reason, and I've received a daily reminder since then.

A little experiment suggests that the problem is cookie related - if I delete cookies after signing out (which my browser does when shut down), eBay thinks I'm signing in on a "new device", but if I leave the cookies alone there's no warning message.

Re: New Sign-in Activity warning

almel777 — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 14:29:54 GMT

I use always use VPN's when working and sometimes at home.

More and more, I am getting this error from ebay and am forced to change password and do captchas.

Just getting too painful to use ebay.

I now always search Amazon first and only go through the ebay pain when there is no other option.

Re: New Sign-in Activity warning

007_not — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 00:43:31 GMT

I get hundreds of these messages from ebay, google you name it.

I think the software developers need to go outside and talk to people.

I an on satellite internet and the satellite service provider jumps on the back of the NBN in a different state to me and they detect that as the location of a log on.

Why can they not just have a tick box saying don't warn me again?

Where would you even start to try to talk to some one at ebay about such things.