View Full Version : My Ebay has been hacked!!
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Just tried to log onto ebay to buy an alternator for my car. Anyway couldent, passsword wrong.
I happen to check my personal email which i have ebay notifications to and i have messages regarding item i am selling :confused:.
looked at them and i am apparantly selling leather bags at 60 quid a pop, so fat i have made over 3oo quid!! WTF!!
now what do i do, checked my paypal and not money has gone in or out even though payment for 2 has been recieved!!
I have changed my password, as whoever it was was dumb enough to let notifications come to my email.
I am worried as if they have access to my ebay they have access to my paypal and bank via it. Nothing out of the ordinary on either yet.
what should i do? any advice/similar experiances??
tigersaw
15-04-08, 06:37 PM
Scan your pc for virus, trojans all that kinda thing first.
Login to everything, change passwords to everything, any problems treat as suspicious.
Email the buyers of the bags, tell them whats happened, so they can take steps to reverse any payment.
this happened to me last year
kwak zzr
15-04-08, 06:44 PM
not jacking your thread neio but i have a weird problem with my pc? when i access something via a password a few pages later it asks for my password again? ive had this with facebook, ebay and paypal? should i be worried?
this happened to me last year
iirc the first i knew about it was when ebay threatened to suspend my account because i was selling counterfeit jewellery
Scan your pc for virus, trojans all that kinda thing first.
Login to everything, change passwords to everything, any problems treat as suspicious.
Email the buyers of the bags, tell them whats happened, so they can take steps to reverse any payment.
i have internet security running but will re scan it. i will be changing all my passwords tonight.
Sarah, how was it resolved??
i have internet security running but will re scan it. i will be changing all my passwords tonight.
Sarah, how was it resolved??
i contacted ebay via an online chat function to explain the problem and also had to speak to them over the phone and it was fine.
i never figured out how they got into my account. i changed all my passwords (that were the same/similar to my ebay and paypal ones). not had any problems since.
tigersaw
15-04-08, 07:08 PM
not jacking your thread neio but i have a weird problem with my pc? when i access something via a password a few pages later it asks for my password again? ive had this with facebook, ebay and paypal? should i be worried?
Might be you are not storing cookies.
i am chatting to them as well now, i feel sorry for the people who have lost the money!!
i am chatting to them as well now, i feel sorry for the people who have lost the money!!
good luck hope it all gets resolved ok.
Drew Carey
15-04-08, 07:27 PM
Mate, sorry to hear bout this. Least its not cost you anything. Hope its all sorted.
It happened to me a few months ago. eBay refunded all my listing fees etc. They were surprisingly efficient about sorting the whole thing. I never found out how they did it either! My paypal not bank account were touched as far as I could tell. You should be OK sorting it all out.
One in the same vein - I got an MSN message from a friend asking me to go to http://blockchecker.msnfanatic.com/ to "check who blocked you".....
The big giveaway was I knew for a fact he was down the pub watching the gee gees, not on MSN worrying about my "social security".
Sure enough (cos I'm not well protected (IT-wise and mentally) against these evil sites) I went to take a look, and it asks you for your IM email address and username, so it can "go and check who has added you to a blocked users list".....yerp ok.
What it definitely does is store your username and password, use them to log into MSN, trawl your emails for other login details, and swim its merry way through everything you ever sent and received on every single site it can find credentials for, pretty much without any manual help, I bet. Any financial details are just a bonus.
Be warned people :)
PS - this is genuine, not some tosh I received today threatening my house would fall down if I didnt forward it to all my friends.....:smt105
I often get spoof from someone pretending to be ebay, I always report it, but I've never had anything this bad.
ts all sorted now, account back to normal, PW changed and reset etc, all fees returned, and i assume the buyers refunded. god knows how they got my login, as we are normally careful on the internet etc.
Just to be on the safeside i have changed my Paypal, AOL, and bank PW as well.
ThEGr33k
15-04-08, 09:49 PM
Think ill be telling my family... just incase they decide to do something silly like that. Im sure I got one of those E-mails the other day ooger. So obvious... DELETE. Saying that thought there are people who send of those scratch cards you always win on LMAO.
Sigh.
ts all sorted now, account back to normal, PW changed and reset etc, all fees returned, and i assume the buyers refunded. god knows how they got my login, as we are normally careful on the internet etc.
Just to be on the safeside i have changed my Paypal, AOL, and bank PW as well.
I'm v careful on the internet too. I know all about not clicking on links in email supposedly from eBay/Paypal etc. Can anyone recommend any software to use to scan the computer for any nasties? I currently use AVG, AdAware & Spybot. All three didn't come up with anything when this happened to me and eBay just sent their standard response when I asked how they could have obtained my login details.
Any advice may stop it happening to anyone else and is gratefully received.:D
This is a totally seperate topic, and only loosly coupled to the original problem, but in my (partly professional) opinion, everyone using a web browser that is not governed by company IT policies should be using anything BUT Internet Explorer by Microsoft.
From experience (and other peoples misfortunes) the majority of nasties that get past any adblocker/spyware/AV/filterset/whatever are targeted at a known weakness in IE .... or one of its recent security updates, ironically.
Hence theres always some of this going on every week/whever you choose to use it:
http://www.yinfor.com/blog/archives/images/win2k-update-nov-2006.jpg
My preferred choice, windows or otherwise, is Firefox. (http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/products/firefox/)
yorkie_chris
16-04-08, 10:08 AM
I use zonealarm firewall as well, don't know how much difference it makes, but it's got to be better than standard.
I already use Firefox. Bloody virus' looks like they'll get into anything!!!
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