My daughter just told me that if we use the same password and email address that we use for eBay on any other sites, then we need to go to all our other sites and change the passwords there as well.

Super, eh?

Sure, I was grumpy with eBay this week (still am), but it wasn't me

:rotflmao:LOL!!

150 million users.
145 million active accounts.
Heck, the population of the whole of Australia is only just over 23 million.

Stolen - passwords, names, email address, home addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and other personal information.

This is really serious stuff.
They seem more concerned about unauthorized monetary activities.
MY concern is identity theft!

I guess I won't be buying on Ebay for a while now!

Have you received the promised email from eBay?

In Canada, we've been sent no notification. I don't think it's possible that eBay.com was breached, but eBay.ca wasn't - there is too much cross traffic between the sites.

We need laws to force e-retailers to inform consumers, immediately and completely, about stolen information, and its possible implications. I don't buy the, "it just lets hackers know what works" excuse.

Well, when I went to sign in yesterday eBay told me. I could not sign in until I changed my password and they were bogged down so I had to wait to do it.

So just now I went to eBay and whoa I could just sign in again. Well that was something. So I continued and found out how to change my password and I did. What a rigamarole. But it's done. Except now it doesn't want to go directly to my Watch List. I can get there but it's not right there when I sign in. Oh well, I'll figure that one out.

But, after thinking it over, if I had tried to bid (I did not) they might have told me that I had to change my password. Just a thought. IDK

No email.

I had no problem changing my password, although as Kitt found, I did have trouble finding where to do it.
It was fast but I had logged into the AU site, not the US site.

I did that as soon as I read your message here yesterday.

I'm also curious Hockey, if you sign into ebay dot ca

Mine is ebay dot com dot au

I'm not really sure how it all works but they're all the one site really as I can log in to the US one and the Ca one and mine as well using my username and password.

Yes, as eBay concedes the hackers copied addresses, names, etc..., identity theft is a real danger.