eBay hacked - change your password
 

News outlets are reporting that eBay has been hacked and users are advised to change their passwords, ASAP.

Here's some links:
http://www.cbc.ca/.../ebay-cyberatta...assword-chang…

news.yahoo.com/cyberattack-ebay-recommends-password-change...

Thank you, --already done. I also changed my "secret" question and answer.

This all happened in Feb-March? Duh?

Yes, but eBay only realized how much info had been compromised a couple weeks ago.

Hackers are such a pain.

Gosh it wasn't easy to find the actual ebay info on this...You'd think it would be on the main log in page...
It sounds like later today they will send a email suggesting password changes...
http://announcements.ebay.com/2014/0...84.m2301.l3955
http://www.ebayinc.com/in_the_news/s...assword-change

Companies often try to cover up breeches. They don't want to erode consumer confidence with the, um, truth.

Thanks for letting us know.
I wouldn't have know otherwise. :o

eBay is swamped with people wanting to change their passwords. Just tried it. They tell you that when you try to sign in. They say your account is secure and not to worry about anything and to try and sign in again and then you can change it. They also say that no activity can occur on your account until your password is reset. So I doubt that you can buy or sell anything until you
change your password. Good deal on their part I think.

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?:(

That is correct. I never use the same one on any other site.

Yes, having one password is like having one key for everything you own.

You bet it is. :winky:

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! :rolleyes:

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. :Soapbox:

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

I did mine early.... it was difficult, slow, but it worked.

I haven't checked my email yet. But they did message me in messages on the site to change my password, which I had already done.

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

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, I always sign into the Canadian site.

This is interesting:

http://www.theguardian.com/technolog...on-cyberattack

I just got the email (about 4 days after I changed my password)!

Way to be on the ball eBay :rolleyes:

I did too. :( I was going to change my password often as I've done in the past but was lax. It's O.K. now though.

I received the email 4 hours ago. :rolleyes:
Useless sort of email it was too!

Still no email, here. What a joke. Goodbye, Ebay.:mad: