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News : Ebay database hacked

adamtemp64 — Wed, 21 May 2014 13:42:48 GMT

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27503290 advised to change passwords on ebay

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Anonymous — Wed, 21 May 2014 13:47:06 GMT

Thank you for the heads up Adam.

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Anonymous — Wed, 21 May 2014 16:23:03 GMT

Thanks Adam.

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Anonymous — Wed, 21 May 2014 16:25:15 GMT

Well spotted Adam. Thank you for the heads up.

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Cleoriff — Wed, 21 May 2014 16:33:55 GMT

@adamtemp64 My thanks are added to everyone elses.

A great pity that Ebay didn't give its members the same 'heads up' as quickly! My other half uses Ebay a

lot for his business/hobby....

This cyber-attack happened late February....an email of warning to all members would have been appreciated

It may be a case of 'shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted' for some Ebay users

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Anonymous — Wed, 21 May 2014 18:17:17 GMT

@Cleoriff The problem might be that they didn't know about the unauthorised access until 2 weeks ago. They would then needed to have determined what information may have been taken. This is harder to do when the accounts used were authorised users, if it had been an external hack of systems they would have known about it sooner

I know that Target in the states suffered the same problem fairly recently and took just as long to inform their users of the attack.

Thanks @adamtemp64 for keeping the community informed!

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Cleoriff — Wed, 21 May 2014 18:34:18 GMT

Yes @Anonymous ...that's exactly what my husband said.

My reply (as usual) was 'its a good job no-one was waiting for CPR then'....

I usually swing that expression out at every opportunity...

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jonsie — Wed, 21 May 2014 18:38:02 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:

My reply (as usual) was 'its a good job no-one was waiting for CPR then'....
I usually swing that expression out at every opportunity...

Classic,@cleoriff and no answer to that methinks!

Re: News : Ebay database hacked

Cleoriff — Thu, 22 May 2014 07:59:33 GMT

Hi,

I watched BBC news this a.m and the business section did a piece on the latest re Ebay.

The hackers took Names, encrypted passwords, and email addresses.

More private info was also taken ...customer addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth.

Ebay stated

No financial information was on the hacked database and Paypal was not compromised

The BBC interviewed a UK online data security expert who said Ebay customers should be VERY worried

about this hacking as it could lead to ID theft and seller reputations being wrecked.

Change of passwords is imperative.....

However, apparently UK customers are experiencing great difficulty accessing Ebay today as the system is

facing an internet overload...

Re: News : Ebay database hacked

adamtemp64 — Thu, 22 May 2014 08:03:04 GMT

when you access ebay this morning there is a banner leading to a letter telling you all about it and to change password (did mine yesterday)

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Cleoriff — Thu, 22 May 2014 08:09:10 GMT

Thanks for that info @adamtemp64 .....however if only I could actually get IN to Ebay, I would follow said

banner

My husband did his yesterday...but I was rather busy and 'forgot'. I cant get the page to load this morning

but will keep trying of course

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adamtemp64 — Thu, 22 May 2014 08:15:59 GMT

@Cleoriff strange it let me straight in to ebay before i posted the update

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Cleoriff — Thu, 22 May 2014 08:25:56 GMT

Oh god...now this is the problem of being unable to multitask with techy things...

Off to try again. Thanks for heads up Adam....

EDIT: And I am in.... ....Bye for a while....

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jonsie — Thu, 22 May 2014 08:33:15 GMT

Just changed mine this morning @Cleoriff Opted for the email option with no problem?

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Cleoriff — Thu, 22 May 2014 08:48:48 GMT

All done now....and relax....

I was up at 6am and attempted it then.... absolutely no joy getting in trying so early!

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Anonymous — Thu, 22 May 2014 13:20:14 GMT

And the backlash begins http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27517907

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Cleoriff — Thu, 22 May 2014 13:29:40 GMT

And so they should face a backlash. I, as a customer, am extremely angry at the length of time it took

Ebay to inform us of the problem.

Their response was 'we needed to collect all the data to make informed judgement'

Sorry that doesn't wash with me. An urgent email to all their customers two months ago would have had me

changing my password immediately. I am not interested in the 'results after they have collected all their data'

Smacks of a cover-up if honest....

Re: News : Ebay database hacked

Anonymous — Thu, 22 May 2014 14:46:47 GMT

Agreed Cleoriff. If this happened in February / March why are we only just hearing about it? I can't help thinking that if news hadn't leaked we wouldn't have been told. I have a low opinion of Ebay anyway and this just reinforces it.

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Anonymous — Thu, 22 May 2014 17:46:47 GMT

This can only be described as a *@*"$%*,/ disgrace. EBay and others have NO RIGHT to our data and have a responsibility when they choose to keep it to look after it.

If people have their identity stolen for example will EBay reimburse? They are the negligent ones.

Re: News : Ebay database hacked

Anonymous — Thu, 22 May 2014 22:58:03 GMT

@Cleoriff and @Anonymous , the likely reason you didn't find out about the problem two months ago is because they didn't know about the unauthorised access until 2 weeks ago. They would then needed to have determined what information had been taken, if any.

The accounts used to access the data were authorised user accounts which the hackers had got a hold of. this then means that its very difficult to determine what is unauthorised access and what isn't. It will have involved going through line upon line of log files so they could issue an informed press release. If it had been an external hack of systems they would have known about it sooner and could have advised sooner.

I'm not condoning how long it took, just explaining a possible reason why.