EBay Hackers

[tommy.irene]

www.itv.com/news/story/2014-05-21/ebay-users-urged-to-change-passwords-after-hacking/      .http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27503290

[lionrose.7]

I have changed my pass word, but wonder at this stage if the horse has not already bolted

I have already receive one invoice to day that my computer says has a virus

[clickbaitoz]

I don't know if this is a case of Ebay telling some porky pies or merely misreporting facts in this article, but it says the hacking happened in March & April, not happy Jan! 😞

http://rt.com/news/160480-ebay-hack-change-passwords/

[cherry*135]

Post 7 in this thread, is quoted from an announcement made by an eBay rep on our Selling & Buying boards.

You would think they would post that message on all our boards, especially this one. It isn't a pinned to the top thread either.

[clickbaitoz]

Just thought, maybe they haven't said anything because its only the US site affected? maybe they didn't hack the Australian ebay. I only found out about this after seeing a tv news headline about it, think i missed the story now because i came here to find out lol

[purple_haize]

I wondered to if only the USA was effected and also it happened back in march and we are now the end of may?

[clickbaitoz]

i don't know but the article was from yesterday even though it refers back to March hacking, not sure if its 2 seperate issues.. Hopefully Ebay Australia will clarify this soon, no doubt they will be inundated with msgs asking them about it now its been on the tv news.

[colic2bullsgirlore]

To interpret the "ebayspeak' for you........

The hack occurred in Late February. The hackers were then able to access/download your personal information through

Late Feb, through all of March, through all of April and also the first 2 weeks in May.

Ebay discovered the hack in early May, immediately plugged the hole and then 2 weeks later after analysing the data

breach it became obvious to ebay that they needed to go public due to privacy law breaches ..........

The horse had not bolted................... it was running around and around outside for months whereby anybody with the

knowledge could have taken it for a spin.

[daydream**believer]

i went to change my password yesterday arvo. It said they would send me an email to do it. Still havent got the email

[purple_haize]

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@daydream**believer wrote:

i went to change my password yesterday arvo. It said they would send me an email to do it. Still havent got the email

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same here Amy.

I tried doing it again this morning and still waiting for the email.

[jimmy*part4]

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@daydream**believer wrote:

i went to change my password yesterday arvo. It said they would send me an email to do it. Still havent got the email

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Why do you need an email to change it?

I just happened to have changed mine 3 days ago. They haven't really made any effort to notify the people on the US ebay either.

What were the hackers after? There haven't been any reported thefts. I wonder if they were after peoples passwords. Even if you change it here...are you using the same one on other accounts? (not an actual question)

If you are I'd change them too.