I've been hacked!
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I fired up my email this morning before I left for work (I can't access my personal account from the office), and was greeted with a number of emails from ebay members, and a final one from ebay telling me that someone had taken control of my account and started spamming other members :mad: (so I apologise if anyone from here got one!) So now I have a new problem. After following the instructions on the email from ebay security, I was supposed to get another email with further instructions. I could only hang around for about 10 minutes, which I would have thought long enough for a system generated email to be delivered. But the email never came and I can no longer log into ebay, so I'm thinking they may have changed my account email address. The messages were only trying to get people to buy stuff, but still, I'm a bit worried how they managed to get my account, and what other info of mine they could get their hands on. So now I have to come up with new passwords, stronger ones this time, but still rememberable, and sort out this ebay debacle. Grumble... Anthony
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I fired up my email this morning before I left for work (I can't access my personal account from the office), and was greeted with a number of emails from ebay members, and a final one from ebay telling me that someone had taken control of my account and started spamming other members :mad: (so I apologise if anyone from here got one!) So now I have a new problem. After following the instructions on the email from ebay security, I was supposed to get another email with further instructions. I could only hang around for about 10 minutes, which I would have thought long enough for a system generated email to be delivered. But the email never came and I can no longer log into ebay, so I'm thinking they may have changed my account email address. The messages were only trying to get people to buy stuff, but still, I'm a bit worried how they managed to get my account, and what other info of mine they could get their hands on. So now I have to come up with new passwords, stronger ones this time, but still rememberable, and sort out this ebay debacle. Grumble... Anthony
This actually happened to a colleague of mine. He was telling me about it this morning. I am unsure if it happened this morning, over the weekend, or last week. I'll find out about his situation tomorrow.
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I fired up my email this morning before I left for work (I can't access my personal account from the office), and was greeted with a number of emails from ebay members, and a final one from ebay telling me that someone had taken control of my account and started spamming other members :mad: (so I apologise if anyone from here got one!) So now I have a new problem. After following the instructions on the email from ebay security, I was supposed to get another email with further instructions. I could only hang around for about 10 minutes, which I would have thought long enough for a system generated email to be delivered. But the email never came and I can no longer log into ebay, so I'm thinking they may have changed my account email address. The messages were only trying to get people to buy stuff, but still, I'm a bit worried how they managed to get my account, and what other info of mine they could get their hands on. So now I have to come up with new passwords, stronger ones this time, but still rememberable, and sort out this ebay debacle. Grumble... Anthony
at least that's what I think. :)
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at least that's what I think. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] Donate to help Conquer Cancer[^]
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This actually happened to a colleague of mine. He was telling me about it this morning. I am unsure if it happened this morning, over the weekend, or last week. I'll find out about his situation tomorrow.
"If an Indian asked a programming question in the forest, would it still be urgent?" - John Simmons / outlaw programmer I get all the news I need from the weather report - Paul Simon (from "The Only Living Boy in New York")
I just got a reply email from eBay, and, in a round about kind of way, they confirmed that my registered email address was still the correct one (although, since they didn't have my work email on file, they couldn't go into too much detail, which is fair enough)
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at least that's what I think. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] Donate to help Conquer Cancer[^]
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at least that's what I think. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] Donate to help Conquer Cancer[^]
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I fired up my email this morning before I left for work (I can't access my personal account from the office), and was greeted with a number of emails from ebay members, and a final one from ebay telling me that someone had taken control of my account and started spamming other members :mad: (so I apologise if anyone from here got one!) So now I have a new problem. After following the instructions on the email from ebay security, I was supposed to get another email with further instructions. I could only hang around for about 10 minutes, which I would have thought long enough for a system generated email to be delivered. But the email never came and I can no longer log into ebay, so I'm thinking they may have changed my account email address. The messages were only trying to get people to buy stuff, but still, I'm a bit worried how they managed to get my account, and what other info of mine they could get their hands on. So now I have to come up with new passwords, stronger ones this time, but still rememberable, and sort out this ebay debacle. Grumble... Anthony
Have you considered the possibility that the sender of that e-mail was not eBay, but someone posing as them to try and get you to change your password on THEIR computer instead? It's called phishing.
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I fired up my email this morning before I left for work (I can't access my personal account from the office), and was greeted with a number of emails from ebay members, and a final one from ebay telling me that someone had taken control of my account and started spamming other members :mad: (so I apologise if anyone from here got one!) So now I have a new problem. After following the instructions on the email from ebay security, I was supposed to get another email with further instructions. I could only hang around for about 10 minutes, which I would have thought long enough for a system generated email to be delivered. But the email never came and I can no longer log into ebay, so I'm thinking they may have changed my account email address. The messages were only trying to get people to buy stuff, but still, I'm a bit worried how they managed to get my account, and what other info of mine they could get their hands on. So now I have to come up with new passwords, stronger ones this time, but still rememberable, and sort out this ebay debacle. Grumble... Anthony
http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/[^] And you then only need to remember 1 password!
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But on a serious note, and this may sound a bit naieve of me, but how do they do that? I never follow links in emails, only type the address in, or use my bookmarks.
if you really did type the URLs instead of clicking on links, you should take a look at the email sources and examine the source IP address (Received: from section at the top), any form "submit" link or "" links - especially the ones related to the hyperlinks to your account - if they do not point to ebay.com then they are fakes... Steve
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at least that's what I think. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] Donate to help Conquer Cancer[^]
I had the same thing happen to me a few months ago (I still haven't got around to getting my account reactivated, as the help on their site is utterly incomprehensible) I hadn't used ebay for about 3 years, or had any reason to log in to anything that claimed to be from ebay, so can't believe it was due to phising. Perhaps ebay have some database leak somewhere?
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But on a serious note, and this may sound a bit naieve of me, but how do they do that? I never follow links in emails, only type the address in, or use my bookmarks.
atregent wrote:
I never follow links in emails, only type the address in
I believe this should be a good practice, albeit it induces a little more wear-and-tear fo the keyboard.
atregent wrote:
use my bookmarks
How far it is safe? The spyware can also go and change the URL in your Documents and Settings/Favorits folder. Isn't it? :confused:
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http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/[^] And you then only need to remember 1 password!
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I fired up my email this morning before I left for work (I can't access my personal account from the office), and was greeted with a number of emails from ebay members, and a final one from ebay telling me that someone had taken control of my account and started spamming other members :mad: (so I apologise if anyone from here got one!) So now I have a new problem. After following the instructions on the email from ebay security, I was supposed to get another email with further instructions. I could only hang around for about 10 minutes, which I would have thought long enough for a system generated email to be delivered. But the email never came and I can no longer log into ebay, so I'm thinking they may have changed my account email address. The messages were only trying to get people to buy stuff, but still, I'm a bit worried how they managed to get my account, and what other info of mine they could get their hands on. So now I have to come up with new passwords, stronger ones this time, but still rememberable, and sort out this ebay debacle. Grumble... Anthony
Get a security key[^]
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I fired up my email this morning before I left for work (I can't access my personal account from the office), and was greeted with a number of emails from ebay members, and a final one from ebay telling me that someone had taken control of my account and started spamming other members :mad: (so I apologise if anyone from here got one!) So now I have a new problem. After following the instructions on the email from ebay security, I was supposed to get another email with further instructions. I could only hang around for about 10 minutes, which I would have thought long enough for a system generated email to be delivered. But the email never came and I can no longer log into ebay, so I'm thinking they may have changed my account email address. The messages were only trying to get people to buy stuff, but still, I'm a bit worried how they managed to get my account, and what other info of mine they could get their hands on. So now I have to come up with new passwords, stronger ones this time, but still rememberable, and sort out this ebay debacle. Grumble... Anthony
I think, for now at least. All they did was send a few dozen messages to other ebay members advertising their web store. http://shopele.com They were even good enough to include an email address (shopele@hotmail.com) And they don't even appear to be in Australia (where both I and my ebay account are): http://www.enom.com/domains/whois.asp?DomainName=shopele.com[^] I'm not quite sure what the best thing to do with all this information is. Any suggestions?