Email from eBay

[Kevin Marois]

Got an email from what appears to be eBay saying I need to change my password because their database was hacked. The email looks professional, but it also feels like a phishing expedition. Anyone know if this is legit?

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[Kent Sharkey]

Yup. They were hacked a couple of weeks back (and are finally getting around to notifying people).

TTFN - Kent

[ZurdoDev]

Just look at the url. I think I got one recently and it was on ebay.com domain.

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[GrumbleDuke]

I got an E-mail from eBay also saying I need to change my password...I don't have an account there.

[ZurdoDev]

GrumbleDuke wrote:

I don't have an account there.

My guess is either 0. Your email is a phisher 1. You actually do have an account at ebay. :)

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[Mike Hankey]

Read about the hack, got an email a few days ago and changed mine.

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[Govindaraj Rangaraj]

Its true and according to my understanding paypal service is not hacked so your financial information are safe, well....safer.

[Ravi Bhavnani]

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[Nueman]

Yes, I got the email too.

What we got here is a failure to communicate

[Lost User]

There are many phishing emails from "Ebay" doing the rounds. I think you will find Ebay has not sent out a global email at all but implores users to change passwords on their home page. Treat it as rubbish. Ebay has also said that there is little useful information for hackers in your Ebay account but if you are using the same password for other services the hackers now have your password. It is a great deal more important to change these other passwords.

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[Lost User]

What relationship does this have to the email in question? I would say the email is definitely not legit just because of this.

Peter Wasser "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell

[JimmyRopes]

Log into eBay as you normally do and change your password. That way you will be sure you are not being directed to a hacker eBay look alike site from an email link.

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[Lost User]

As mentioned above - yes they got hacked and yes you should change your password. Whether the email is a phish is anyone's guess - emails to me from eBay are generally directed straight to the bin without opening, so I wouldn't have noticed a legitimate one.

[Rage]

:omg: You must have been living under a rock lately !! This made the headlines (at least in France) several days.

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[GuyThiebaut]

The clue that an email is a phishing email is that the email will contain a link of some sort to a website. Genuine warning emails, nowadays, do not contain URLS or telephone/address information. They rely on you knowing where to log in to change your details. The ebay email I got contained no URLs so I knew it was genuine - as well as following the news I knew that I was due for an email from ebay. So my general rule is - if the email contains a URL or contact information from the sender - it is in all probability a phishing email.

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”

― Christopher Hitchens

[OriginalGriff]

Read about the hack, changed mine - still haven't had the email! :laugh:

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[Lost User]

That's because it went to the guy who hacked into your ebay account and changed your email address :)

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[Karen Mitchelle]

Are we still talking about password here? :laugh:

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