E.bay account hacked

[Moonshine]

Received 42 e.mails this morning from E.bay regarding listing confirmations for 42 Apple Nano Ipods that I was reportedly selling. Contacted E.bay security, and per their recommendations, changed my password and ended all the spurious auctions. What I don't understand is the point. Unless the hacker changed my e.mail address they had to know I'd get the listing confirmations and take corrective action, so where's the benfit to the hacker? Just being a PITA?

[99WhiteBeast]

I had the same thing happen to me as well last month. I had 142 listings for various type IPODS.

[Silver_2000]

Id love to know how they are getting this stuff

Did you get any interesting recent emails from ebay or anyone else ? viruses ? Spyware ?

Ive never set my account up to sell anything - never jumped through the hoops

[Sixpipes]

So Steve or Brian,

Either one of you got any Ipods left? I'm in the market.:D

[99WhiteBeast]

So Steve or Brian,

Either one of you got any Ipods left? I'm in the market.:D

:rll:good one

[Moonshine]

Did you get any interesting recent emails from ebay or anyone else ? viruses ? Spyware ?



Nope, nothing. Haven't had any activity on my E.bay account in several months at least. Been using the same ID for 8 years and this is the first problem I've ever had. So far, E.bay has been pretty responsive.

[David N]

Nope, nothing. Haven't had any activity on my E.bay account in several months at least. Been using the same ID for 8 years and this is the first problem I've ever had. So far, E.bay has been pretty responsive.


I have seen all the ipod scams since I'm looking for a Nano....wonder how they got your passwords????

[L8 APEX]

Think I'll use a hardened password like we have at work. It may be better than my old trivial passwords.

[TXLIGHTNING]

Think I'll use a hardened password like we have at work. It may be better than my old trivial passwords.The key is to use a combination of upper & lower case + numeric values in the mix. Make it as long as you can and hope you can remember it :rolleyes:.

[Silver_2000]

The key is to use a combination of upper & lower case + numeric values in the mix. Make it as long as you can and hope you can remember it :rolleyes:.

Thats supposed to defend against a dictionary attack BUT any decent login system gives you 5 or 10 tries then locks the account for 10 -30 min - which effectively eliminates the dictionary attack

[wesman]

This happened to Steve-O a couple months back

--wes