Author Topic: eBay hacked, change your account passwords ASAP!  (Read 3673 times)

foxhack

eBay hacked, change your account passwords ASAP!
« on: May 21, 2014, 01:48:32 pm »
I don't usually abuse my admin status here but this is urgent. eBay got hacked... in FEBRUARY. And those dumbasses didn't say a thing until today.

http://www.ebayinc.com/in_the_news/story/ebay-inc-ask-ebay-users-change-passwords

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The database, which was compromised between late February and early March, included eBay customers’ name, encrypted password, email address, physical address, phone number and date of birth. However, the database did not contain financial information or other confidential personal information.

The usual "if your password is the same at other places, change it ASAP" warning applies.

karyann

Re: eBay hacked, change your account passwords ASAP!
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2014, 01:50:28 pm »
Have they done anything about it, even though they didn't talk about it? If so, I'm safe; I changed my password about 2 weeks ago. But wow... It's really stupid and dangerous not to mention it.

argyle

Re: eBay hacked, change your account passwords ASAP!
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2014, 02:33:53 pm »
Done, thanks for the heads up.
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Re: eBay hacked, change your account passwords ASAP!
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2014, 02:40:05 pm »
What idiots.  Thanks for the message, got mine changed.

burningdoom

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Re: eBay hacked, change your account passwords ASAP!
« Reply #4 on: May 21, 2014, 04:03:22 pm »
Changed mine.

foxhack

Re: eBay hacked, change your account passwords ASAP!
« Reply #5 on: May 21, 2014, 05:34:11 pm »
Have they done anything about it, even though they didn't talk about it? If so, I'm safe; I changed my password about 2 weeks ago. But wow... It's really stupid and dangerous not to mention it.

Nobody knows.

They'll probably do something in October.

htimreimer

Re: eBay hacked, change your account passwords ASAP!
« Reply #6 on: May 21, 2014, 10:07:47 pm »
and now its safe, thanks foxhack ;D

jobocan

Re: eBay hacked, change your account passwords ASAP!
« Reply #7 on: May 21, 2014, 10:14:29 pm »
Geeze, and people complained when Sony took 1-3 days to tell people the PSN was hacked. What's with companies being so freaking irresponsible lately?

doctorlaudanum

Re: eBay hacked, change your account passwords ASAP!
« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2014, 11:30:47 pm »
Egads. Thanks for the heads-up. I don't understand how no one bothered to announce it until now. That's just infuriating.
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scott

Re: eBay hacked, change your account passwords ASAP!
« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2014, 08:38:31 am »
Changed, thanks!
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fazerco

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Re: eBay hacked, change your account passwords ASAP!
« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2014, 12:02:54 pm »
hmm, what was my old password  :-\

scott

Re: eBay hacked, change your account passwords ASAP!
« Reply #11 on: May 22, 2014, 12:18:50 pm »
hmm, what was my old password  :-\

I just hit "forgot password" and they emailed me a password change message. :)
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fazerco

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Re: eBay hacked, change your account passwords ASAP!
« Reply #12 on: May 22, 2014, 03:24:24 pm »
hmm, what was my old password  :-\

I just hit "forgot password" and they emailed me a password change message. :)

I was thinking of mailing the hackers for my password  :P

theprestige2000

Re: eBay hacked, change your account passwords ASAP!
« Reply #13 on: May 22, 2014, 03:40:49 pm »
Thank you Sir!

spac316

Re: eBay hacked, change your account passwords ASAP!
« Reply #14 on: May 27, 2014, 09:18:21 pm »
I received an email from them about this so I went ahead and changed mine. But yeah, it's stupid that they waited this long to tell us...