Gumtree hacked

[bakeandfry]

Anyone who has an account with gumtree becarefull.

[serendipityricho]

More info?......................Richo.

[imastawka]

AUSTRALIAN users of the popular online sales site Gumtree may be targeted by online criminals after the site was hacked last weekend, exposing users’ personal details.

The company, owned by online auction house eBay, contacted many of its customers to warn accounts had been “compromised in a security attack” which it had reported to the Australian Federal Police.

“The attackers accessed your email address,” the email read.

“Contact names and phone numbers, which are made publicly available on the site if provided, were also accessed.”

Financial details and passwords were not exposed in the hack, the company said, as it used a third-party gateway for payments.

Details of the data theft have been reported to both the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Privacy Commissioner.

Full story here -

http://www.news.com.au/technology/australian-gumtree-users-targeted-in-hacking-attack-with-personal-...

[kopenhagen5]

Could explain why my email suddenly has an influx of junk mail in the last few days. Mostly gambling sites.

And it's only my email addy I use for gumtree.

[bright.ton42]

Tks bakeandfry, I was going to list a few things there but will leave it for a goodly while now, if ever.

[electric*mayhem*band]

I seem to remember it also happened to someone else, not a million miles away.

http://bgr.com/2014/05/27/ebay-hack-145-million-accounts-compromised/

[bakeandfry]

Sorry about that, in my haste i forgot to put the link in, lucky Stawka is on the case.

[imastawka]

      

[colic2bullsgirlore]

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@serendipityricho wrote:

More info?......................Richo.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_p41-3dQiA

[lurker172602]

I got the email from gumtree this morning.  If it's only my email they have got that's ok.  I use different ones for different things, and I've already been in and changed passwords.  Still annoying though.