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Over the past few months I've gotten dozens of "forgotten passwords" e-mails from eBay that are definitely triggered by attempts to get into my account, but these yesterday and today were different. In any case, I did reset the password, but not through the e-mail link. I was more flummoxed by the text messages, actually--they were just plain odd. |
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I haven't heard anything yet from ebay, and I buy a lot of old records there, stuff I can't get anywhere else. Guess maybe I'd better change my password.
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Only way I even heard about this was seeing a scroll bar on CNN yesterday. I changed my password then. Also paypal just in case.
Haven't heard anything from ebay. If the hackers got the info a while back, they already have it. I can change my password until the cows come home. They already have my address, birthday and all that stuff, right? Not that it isn't a good idea to change passwords, but still. I just dealt with a hack this week when someone hacked into my Walmart account and happily ordered cell phones that also had phone cards attached that get emailed. They emailed the cards to their email and I got stuck dealing with 2 phones shipped to my address. All they wanted where the email codes for the minutes. I finally got that straightened out with cancelled CC and refusing delivery of the stupid phones. WalMart was no help of course. I feel sometimes like its playing russian roulette anytime I do anything online that requires my address, payment. Since pretty much everything is done online now, I don't have much choice. |
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I don't worry too much about name/address/birthday, that info isn't hard to find for any of us anyway. |
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It won't hurt to change it, even if it wasn't compromised. Why take chances? So, I think your instinct is right on this.
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I've been a registered user on eBay since March, 1997 (when you could still browse everything in a specific category). I actually bought items there before registering as, originally, you didn't have to register to buy. Seventeen plus years (I'm getting old). This is the first time I've ever changed my password. I figured I've had a long run, why test fate any further.
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It's been so long since I used eBay, I don't even remember my password.
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Wow...I didn't receive any notification from eBay, but I went there anyway and got the password reset. I also removed the link to my Paypal account. I haven't used eBay in years, but not quite ready to close the account yet either. And the Paypal account is now further locked down with a security key. I wish eBay would do the key thing as well without having to link to Paypal.
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I went to eBay as soon as I read the story-and couldn't find a 'straight-up' password change function. I did find one, eventually, by following a question about what to do if I find that somebody else has used my account. Really-standard security practices are to change passwords frequently. So why would a company that's really concerned about security hide that function? I guess that tells everybody how concerned eBay really is about security. (FWIW I use eBay maybe twice/year so I don't remember my login but I do write it down. That used to be a no-no but these days more 'hacks' come online from easily guessed passwords than from people physically accessing your office. Besides I keep my written-down passwords in a lockbox.) |
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...Still awaiting my email from eBay. Tick tock... EBay's response to this mess has been egregious. I hope they'll comply with legislators' requests that eBay provide free credit monitoring services to affected users. It's the least eBay could do; their breach is larger than those of Target, disclosed last December, and of TJ Maxx/Marshall, in 2006. Last edited by Froide; 05-23-2014 at 02:00 PM. |
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Well, this just sucks. These breeches of security are getting more and more commonplace, and it's not just eBay/PayPal. If a new system for guaranteeing identity isn't devised soon, we'll all find ourselves victims of identity theft.
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I got an email about it from eBay today. I actually changed my password last week, of course.
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