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Re: Ebay hacked

From mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Ebay hacked
References <bu5nskFnom7U1@mid.individual.net> <llm1dt$3v4$1@dont-email.me>
Message-ID <_sLfv.98186$b96.25710@fx09.am4> (permalink)
Organization virginmedia.com
Date 2014-05-23 18:21 +0100

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On 23/05/2014 00:28, James Harris wrote:
>
> This appears to be worse than I thought. From the Telegraph: "It admitted
> that the name, address, date of birth, telephone number, email address and
> password of every eBay account holder

You mean to say you don't have
1) a specific ebay only email address
2) an ebay only phone number (and old mobile phone with a prepay SIM)
3) a false birthdate but one you can remember (25th December 1970?)

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.

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

>
> Various points about this - at least as it is reported - are dreadful:
>
> * one employee's account had access to copy all this info

These people are called system administrators, they normally have access 
to everything because they are the people who grant access to lesser beings.

> 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.

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