Ebay was hacked

[campbell829]

I saw this on the news the other day. I better go and change some more passwords!

[kewl4reals]

A large portion of Ebay's customer information is under the possession of hackers... Information regarding contact name, birth date, phone number, email address, and street address. Paypal on a separate network wasn't affected. But for those in the FC community that uses Ebay, please make sure to reset/change your account password as soon as possible. Also be wary of fake emails and phone calls about recent/past ebay orders
I would have thought that e had tighter security than that






Now I know why, I was recently receiving fake USPS emails (in my spam inbox) about picking up/verifying my ebay orders -_-


Sources:
http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/21/technology/security/ebay-passwords/

[pstovall]

I have seen something about this elsewhere, but didn't do anything about it at the time.  I have used ebay in the past and have been very happy with my dealings with the site.  It's too bad we have to be constantly guarding our passwords and identity on the Internet.  Thanks for this thread reminding me to go protect myself.

[lguzman1]

Thank you for the information, I guess I'm changing my email. 

[kapeh12]

I heard about this on the news too.  This time I'm in the clear as I don't have an account with eBay.  I did get hit with the Target hack, had to get my debit card re-issued - but I caught that quickly as I'm constantly monitoring my credit/debit cards.

It's for reasons like this that I choose not to subscribe to some of those "all inclusive" online financial tools.  Yes, it's a nice idea to place all your financial information in one "secure" site, however, if that site has not yet been hacked - you really don't know what security weaknesses are there lurking, waiting for some hacker to exploit.  I'm more likely to trust a site after it's been hacked rather than before.  Why?  Because the hack will expose the weaknesses in the system and the business will plug the holes. 

Sites being hacked is just something we all need to deal with in this age of information technology.  As technology continues to advance, so to criminal techniques and those trying to stop them.  Those common sense rules of thumb are still be best defense - change your passwords often; don't use "easy to guess" passwords, be skeptical when you store any financial information online - any time you do, it's a calculated risk regardless of how secure the site; regularly monitor your financial activity for unusual charges.

Keep in mind - hacking isn't the only way people get your account information.  There are those who run programs to find credit card/security code combinations until they find one that works, then use it.  More of a brute force type method for stealing, but still happens.  That's most likely how one of my credit cards were hacked a couple years back - it was a card I have as a backup and don't use at all, then all of a sudden I got a couple charges.  To the card's credit - they contacted me within the hour of those charges being made flagging them as fraudulent.  Was impressed.

[babyturtles23]

I read about this. It's pretty messed up. Chase has also been having problems.

[betlynjua]

Wow, that is horrible.  I don't use ebay personally but I appreciate your post.  This type of crime is becoming so prevalent these days. 

[aharr1]

Wow that is ridiculous, its hard to trust any sites now it seems someone is always trying to hack into them, thanks for letting me know.

[nmbrown863]

I use ebay quite a bit and received an email from them asking me to change my password, which I did. It is very concerning when things like this happen.

[carmexqueen]

I never received any emails. Wish these people would find better things to do with their lives

[myfreebees316]

This just goes to prove it no site is un hackable . If the government can be hacked by people which it has happen before then any site can be & the gov has ton of security I'm sure

[acurtsinger2]

ebay is large enough to keep us protected..they need to check into their security systems

[kingozzy]

That is crazy it seems they can hack anything, glad paypal wasn't affected

[marcar1008]

Thank you for the info. No wonder I was asked to change my password.

I didn't want to change it. I was so used to my password, even afraid to forget if I changed it. But I know it's for security purposes.