Author Topic: Change your ebay password. (Read 1110 times)

crossbro · « **on:** May 22, 2014, 11:25:32 AM »

All 145 million users passwords stolen.

crossbro · « **Reply #1 on:** May 22, 2014, 11:30:44 AM »

This is very bad because if this can happen to ebay then it can also happen to amazon which I always felt was untouchable.

I had to learn this on the radio when I woke up.

I have no email alert from ebay and no message on my ebay account telling me to change the password. It looks like ebay has no procedure for immediately tackling a problem like this one. It is probably an organizational flaw where employees are punished for questioning the security of ebay.

Employee- "What should we do if all the passwords are stolen ?"

ebay Boss- "Shut your filthy mouth, that will never happen and if you bring it up again clean out your desk".

shin · « **Reply #2 on:** May 22, 2014, 11:39:14 AM »

To date, I have received no notification from eBay whatsoever. I have to find out about this through word of mouth and search engines.

crossbro · « **Reply #3 on:** May 22, 2014, 12:25:26 PM »

Quote from: shin

To date, I have received no notification from eBay whatsoever. I have to find out about this through word of mouth and search engines.

When I heard about this I thought that when I tried to get into my account I would be prompted to go to my email to change my password. I was surprised that I had no problem or messages from ebay. I was able to see my account information and personal information with no problem at all.

Apparently, ebay cares only about ebay and the few pennies they get from a customer means more to ebay than the thousands of dollars a household could lose plus the months if not years of financial and administrative struggle a victim of identity theft could endure.

If they got ahold of my password then what else did they get ?

crossbro · « **Reply #4 on:** May 22, 2014, 12:32:07 PM »

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As eBay hastily informs its customers of its massive privacy breach, the company told the Australian Law Reform Commission that stopping reputation damage was enough of an incentive to protect customer data, and that statutory action against privacy breaches was unnecessary.

Overnight, eBay announced that it had been the victim of a "cyberattack" that saw its employee login credentials compromised between late February and early March, allowing access to eBay's corporate network, and the company's customer database containing its users' names, email addresses, physical addresses, date of births, and their encrypted passwords. eBay first became aware of the issue around two weeks ago.

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