Ebay Account hacked

Beans on toast Dave · 17 Nov 2007 at 12:27

hi,
just got back home and had an email from ebay saying my account has been restored due to "a third party accessed account"
i thought my password was reasonably secure
anyway, i have changed all my passwords on ebay, paypal and hotmail to something as unique as i can think of, and checked my paypal and credit card accounts to see if any money has gone, luckly its all ok, looks like they have sent out 10-20 emails to other users with website addresses :rolleyes:

i signed into all my accounts using bookmarks so there is no chance of going to a dodgy site via email.
so my question is, is there anything i can do to stop this happening again?
and is there anything i have not checked that i need to check?

thanks

mame · 17 Nov 2007 at 12:32

are you sure its a genuine email? i get emails like that, mainly for paypal, saying i need to validate my account etc etc. just trying to get me to enter my details into a fake site

bledd · 17 Nov 2007 at 12:33

was it a real email from ebay?

Beans on toast Dave · 17 Nov 2007 at 12:35

yes it was genuine, tried to log into my ebay account via a bookmark and i had to request a new password, i did not click any links on the email, looking on my account there were lots of emails sent, not by me!!

bledd · 17 Nov 2007 at 12:36

key logger?

jackthezipper · 17 Nov 2007 at 12:38

Email secret question? Then request ebay password? Wouldn't be that hard if your question is weak or your pw hint is obvious.

coolpunkskater · 17 Nov 2007 at 12:38

had emails like this before
they we're 3rd party and not ebay

you can always send these mails to ebay i think its spoof..... @ ebay

or some thing like just look on the bay to find out

Beans on toast Dave · 17 Nov 2007 at 12:42

jackthezipper said:
Email secret question? Then request ebay password? Wouldn't be that hard if your question is weak or your pw hint is obvious.

questions difficult as i was form my childhood, also there is no password hint :confused:

Beans on toast Dave · 17 Nov 2007 at 12:43

coolpunkskater said:
had emails like this before
they we're 3rd party and not ebay

you can always send these mails to ebay i think its spoof..... @ ebay

or some thing like just look on the bay to find out

deffo from ebay, looked my messages on my ebay page, they are there

Beans on toast Dave · 17 Nov 2007 at 12:44

bledd. said:
key logger?

how can i check this, i have antivirus and windows defender, updated and scanned! how can i check for a keylogger?

coolpunkskater · 17 Nov 2007 at 12:46

challengedavid said:
deffo from ebay, looked my messages on my ebay page, they are there

well u did the right thing changing your pw's rember never have the same pw on more then one thing

same with bank cards

dan0r2 · 17 Nov 2007 at 14:27

Hi,

I had this also happen to me only a few weeks ago.

I hadn't logged into the account for months and I rarely use it. My account was created in 2001.

I'm quite computer security paranoid and have a very technical computer knowledge and I'm sure there is no way they got the password from my side.

Only thing that leaves is that there was once or still is a flaw in the ebay site allowing users to log into other peoples accounts or to retreive passwords.

Zip · 17 Nov 2007 at 14:32

challengedavid said:
how can i check this, i have antivirus and windows defender, updated and scanned! how can i check for a keylogger?

What antivirus have you got? If its AVG then try something like the free trial of Kaspersky

Also get Spybot and Adaware.
That will help keep you computer secure in the future aswell

bledd · 17 Nov 2007 at 14:37

run av check with either kaspersky/nod32, then run spybot s&d, adaware, avg antispyware

Fourstar · 17 Nov 2007 at 15:32

What kind of emails had the h4><0|2 been sending from your account?

Rich43 · 17 Nov 2007 at 18:34

Use a mac / linux and be careful what you click (check address bar)

Beans on toast Dave · 17 Nov 2007 at 21:08

Fourstar said:
What kind of emails had the h4><0|2 been sending from your account?

Our Web: < www.ele1981.com>
MSN: [email protected]
email: [email protected]
We sell:IBM, DELL, HP, SONY, CANON, NIKON, MP3, MP4, PSP, DVD, GPS, DJ, NOKIA, PDA, TV, notebook!
:rolleyes:

ran spybot, that found a few tracking cookies thats all

thanks for all your suggestions guys

Jet · 17 Nov 2007 at 21:26

I got an email tonight as well. An account I haven't used in years and years was compromised so I doubt it's key-loggers or anything. They were sending a similar message to yours but in French and on eBay.fr.

ethan · 17 Nov 2007 at 23:25

I had to reset and confirm all of my new details by phone. If it's genuine then you arrange by phone-or should do

Ol!ver · 16 Dec 2007 at 14:45

Just found my inbox full of messages that I'd supposedly sent to other members advertising a site. Tried to log into my ebay account and couldn't. Luckily enough my email address was still valid, so went through the process of resetting the password. Back in now, but really not sure what happened. Reckon my Fiencee's brother has downloaded something on her laptop, as I was using that a couple of days ago to order on ebay?