05-22-2014, 05:05 AM | #1 |
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Ebay hacked again!!
The BBC:
The US firm Ebay said a database had been hacked between late February and early March, and had contained encrypted passwords and other non-financial data. The company added that it had no evidence of there being unauthorised activity on its members' accounts. However, it said that changing the passwords was "best practice and will help enhance security for eBay users". The California-based company has 128 million active users and accounted for $212bn (£126bn) worth of commerce on its various marketplaces and other services in 2013. It said it would be contacting users to alert them of the issue via email, its website, adverts and social media. A spokesman added that the firm's engineers were in the process of rolling out a feature that would oblige members to choose new passwords when they next logged in, which should be live in each of the countries eBay operated in by the end of the day. Here's the Guardian's Q&A Ebay's announcement that a database holding the personal details of users – potentially all 223 million worldwide – was hacked raises a number of serious questions. It's the biggest reported hack ever in terms of the number of people affected, but does not affect financial data, which is stored separately. Spoiler:
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05-22-2014, 05:07 AM | #2 |
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I've never used them, so one less worry for me!
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05-22-2014, 05:24 AM | #3 |
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They're taking their time on sending out E-mails. Also, when I went to the site yesterday afternoon (eastern US) there was no notice about the hack on their site anywhere to be found.
This slowness of notifying people is bad. Good thing the press has done a lot of it for them. Some are speculating that their password reset system can't handle the load, because it was timing out on people by evening time. |
05-22-2014, 05:27 AM | #4 |
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Good to know that only my password and username were hacked. I feel so much safer knowing that the way to access my personal info was stolen but not the info itself. DO NOT BE ALARMED BY THIS MESSAGE.
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05-22-2014, 06:32 AM | #5 |
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05-22-2014, 06:49 AM | #6 |
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Worrying!
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05-22-2014, 06:53 AM | #7 |
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I haven't been logged in in so many years that I wouldn't be able to remember my password to be able to change my password. Not to mention that the email address I used back then is defunct, so resetting my password probably isn't an option. Think I'll just do nothing instead; and hope that when they finally break the encryption on my password, they find the account suspended for inactivity.
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Any word on the Pay Pal payment system?
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05-22-2014, 10:11 AM | #10 |
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05-22-2014, 10:14 AM | #11 |
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I got an email from eBay that I guess was their notification; it told me how to reset my password but said nothing about why I should.
Today I had two text messages giving me two different temporary eBay PINs--no idea what that's about. |
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Paypal passwords weren't affected.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/05/...-about-paypal/ |
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That sounds like someone trying to get into your account. Could have been a simple mistake (got their account name/E-mail address wrong while trying to reset their own), or someone using the stolen data. I'd bet on it being a mistake though, the people with the data wouldn't need to reset it. |
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05-22-2014, 01:18 PM | #14 |
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whats more worrying is they were hacked 3 months ago and only now are we being told!!! i never got an email saw a story on ten oclock news last night
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Alan Henry wrote about this matter yesterday morning, in Lifehacker: "eBay Hacked, Change Your Passwords Now" (May 21, 2014, 7:05 am):
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I so agree with the title, tone, and content of Angus Kidman's Lifehacker Australia article: "eBay Demonstrates How Not To Handle Being Hacked" (May 21, 2014, 6:30 am). Last edited by Froide; 05-23-2014 at 01:42 PM. Reason: Fixed the Lifehacker Aus. link; thanks for the heads-up, Manabi! |
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