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Ebay hacked

Started bySylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
First post2014-05-22 17:38 +1000
Last post2014-05-26 14:32 +0000
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  Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-22 17:38 +1000
    Re: Ebay hacked RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-22 13:35 +0000
      Re: Ebay hacked Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2014-05-24 14:32 +0100
    Re: Ebay hacked Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-22 15:59 +0000
      Re: Ebay hacked Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-05-23 17:06 +0300
        Re: Ebay hacked Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-24 16:13 +0000
          Re: Ebay hacked Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-05-24 20:45 +0100
            Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-25 19:33 +1000
              Re: Ebay hacked Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-05-25 20:19 +0000
                Re: Ebay hacked Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-05-25 21:50 +0000
        Re: Ebay hacked Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-24 16:53 +0000
          Re: Ebay hacked Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2014-05-24 21:12 +0300
            Re: Ebay hacked Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-24 18:33 +0000
              Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-25 19:37 +1000
                Re: Ebay hacked Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-05-25 13:46 +0000
                  Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-26 16:55 +1000
                    Re: Ebay hacked Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-26 18:42 +0200
            Re: Ebay hacked Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-27 13:38 +0200
          Re: Ebay hacked Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-24 22:32 +0000
          Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-25 19:36 +1000
            Re: Ebay hacked Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-05-25 14:00 +0000
              Re: Ebay hacked Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-25 17:18 +0200
            Re: Ebay hacked Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-25 22:53 +0200
              Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-26 17:03 +1000
                Re: Ebay hacked Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-05-26 13:17 +0000
                  Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-27 15:18 +1000
            Re: Ebay hacked Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-26 06:57 +0000
              Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-26 17:07 +1000
                Re: Ebay hacked Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-05-26 13:21 +0000
                Re: Ebay hacked Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-27 05:53 +0000
              Re: Ebay hacked Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-05-26 13:19 +0000
              Re: Ebay hacked Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-26 18:46 +0200
        Re: Ebay hacked "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-05-24 20:54 +0100
          Re: Ebay hacked Rich <rich@example.com> - 2014-05-24 20:24 +0000
          Re: Ebay hacked Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-24 22:35 +0000
    Re: Ebay hacked "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-05-23 00:28 +0100
      Re: Ebay hacked simple@machines.gopher - 2014-05-23 14:30 +0000
        Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-24 00:36 +1000
          Re: Ebay hacked Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-24 13:34 +0200
      Re: Ebay hacked mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2014-05-23 18:21 +0100
        Re: Ebay hacked Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-05-23 18:39 +0100
          Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-24 16:29 +1000
        Re: Ebay hacked RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-23 21:57 +0000
        Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-24 16:28 +1000
      Re: Ebay hacked "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2014-05-26 15:27 +0100
        Re: Ebay hacked Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-05-26 14:32 +0000

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#3033

FromTim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net>
Date2014-05-23 18:39 +0100
Message-ID<230520141839522057%timstreater@greenbee.net>
In reply to#3032
In article <_sLfv.98186$b96.25710@fx09.am4>, mm0fmf
<none@mailinator.com> wrote:

> On 23/05/2014 00:28, James Harris wrote:

> > As the article says, "The danger goes beyond the internet, because some
> > telephone banking services accept a date of birth and address to verify the
> > identity of a customer."
> 
> Well anyone who uses the same identity info for bank account access and 
> *ANY OTHER WEBSITE* must be particularly fucking stupid.

Anyone who uses a bank which just accepts date of birth and address as
identity verification is off their trolley. If I'm not personally
present at the bank, and I'm accessing it over the internet, I expect
them to have given me a one-time-password toy that I can use.

-- 
"Once you adopt the unix paradigm, the variants cease to be a problem - you
bitch, of course, but that's because bitching is fun, unlike M$ OS's, where 
bitching is required to keep your head from exploding." - S Stremler in afc

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#3059

FromSylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Date2014-05-24 16:29 +1000
Message-ID<buasimFqg38U2@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#3033
On 24/05/2014 3:39 AM, Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <_sLfv.98186$b96.25710@fx09.am4>, mm0fmf
> <none@mailinator.com> wrote:
>
>> On 23/05/2014 00:28, James Harris wrote:
>
>> > As the article says, "The danger goes beyond the internet, because some
>> > telephone banking services accept a date of birth and address to
>> verify the
>> > identity of a customer."
>>
>> Well anyone who uses the same identity info for bank account access
>> and *ANY OTHER WEBSITE* must be particularly fucking stupid.
>
> Anyone who uses a bank which just accepts date of birth and address as
> identity verification is off their trolley. If I'm not personally
> present at the bank, and I'm accessing it over the internet, I expect
> them to have given me a one-time-password toy that I can use.
>

In any case, to the extent that any money is stolen, it would be the 
bank's loss, not the customer's, though the customer might have some 
difficulty in the short term.

Sylvia.

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#3046

FromRS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Date2014-05-23 21:57 +0000
Message-ID<llog90$37o$1@solani.org>
In reply to#3032
On 2014-05-23, mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> wrote:
> The only thing they have found out about me is my name & address which
> is already publicly available. The other info is not correct if they
> try to use it to confirm my identity to other companies/banks etc.
>
>>
>> There are also claims that Ebay has told its customers that they have
>> to change their passwords. I haven't received any email from them.
>> Nor is there a message against my Ebay account.

> Well anyone who uses the same identity info for bank account access
> and *ANY OTHER WEBSITE* must be particularly fucking stupid.

Get ready for a PayPal crisis next.  Many people got their paypal
accounts in order to pay for something on Ebay (the two services gained
popularity at about the same time) so it's almost certain that a
percentage of users decided on the same name and password for each
service.  Anybody stupid enough to have chosen that long-derided
practice is now probably noticing their Paypal account has been used for
nefarious purposes - or drained - as well.

Bad times!

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#3058

FromSylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Date2014-05-24 16:28 +1000
Message-ID<buasfqFqg38U1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#3032
On 24/05/2014 3:21 AM, mm0fmf wrote:

> There's a damn great area of the page when I log in telling me to change
> my password.
>

Not much help to those who don't log in very often.

Sylvia.

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#3216

From"James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com>
Date2014-05-26 15:27 +0100
Message-ID<llvj0g$tqk$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#3007
"James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:llm1dt$3v4$1@dont-email.me...

...

> There are also claims that Ebay has told its customers that they have to 
> change their passwords. I haven't received any email from them. Nor is 
> there a message against my Ebay account.

I finally got an email from them asking me to change my password. The email 
was sent a day or so *after* I changed the password.

James

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#3218

FromRich <rich@example.invalid>
Date2014-05-26 14:32 +0000
Message-ID<llvj9k$uaj$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#3216
James Harris <james.harris.1@gmail.com> wrote:
> "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:llm1dt$3v4$1@dont-email.me...

> ...

> > There are also claims that Ebay has told its customers that they
> > have to change their passwords. I haven't received any email from
> > them. Nor is there a message against my Ebay account.

> I finally got an email from them asking me to change my password. The
> email was sent a day or so *after* I changed the password.

Nice and timely there - yet another security fail.

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