My ebay account was hacked
anablep
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Hi.
Went to check on a few items I was watching last night and ended up spending almost 2 hours working with "Live Chat" on ebay to clear up my account.
It seems someone changed my country of origin from the US to Taiwan, changed the credit card information and sold or was in the process of selling about 50 handbags under my name. I changed passwords on my ebay & yahoo accounts and the ebay representative purged the account, but the hacker repeated the process again this morning. Either that or the new items were scheduled to be sold. Any way, the items were purged again by ebay, passwords changed again and a virus scan and adaware scan performed as well.
I made the mistake of answering an email from what appeared to be a "buyer's" message about sending me money for items "won" from one of the fraudulent sales. That was a big mistake & I am hoping it doesn't bite me in the a$$ later on.
The account was temporarily shut down today and I may keep it that way for a while. This is out of control.
On the plus side, ebay was good about helping and actually called me twice to explain what was happening.
Anyone else with similar problems recently?
Be careful out there!!
Went to check on a few items I was watching last night and ended up spending almost 2 hours working with "Live Chat" on ebay to clear up my account.
It seems someone changed my country of origin from the US to Taiwan, changed the credit card information and sold or was in the process of selling about 50 handbags under my name. I changed passwords on my ebay & yahoo accounts and the ebay representative purged the account, but the hacker repeated the process again this morning. Either that or the new items were scheduled to be sold. Any way, the items were purged again by ebay, passwords changed again and a virus scan and adaware scan performed as well.
I made the mistake of answering an email from what appeared to be a "buyer's" message about sending me money for items "won" from one of the fraudulent sales. That was a big mistake & I am hoping it doesn't bite me in the a$$ later on.
The account was temporarily shut down today and I may keep it that way for a while. This is out of control.
On the plus side, ebay was good about helping and actually called me twice to explain what was happening.
Anyone else with similar problems recently?
Be careful out there!!
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<< <i>I made the mistake of answering an email from what appeared to be a "buyer's" message about sending me money for items "won" from one of the fraudulent sales. That was a big mistake & I am hoping it doesn't bite me in the a$$ later on. >>
Well, there's your problem. I'd inform your bank and another other financial institution you deal with to be on the look out for identity theft. You're in a dangerous spot right now; try to stay a step ahead of the crooks.
time re-armoring yourself.
all windows installs, fresh installs, are hackable remotely
from anywhere. get behind a linksys firewall, nat firewall,
as in get a private ip.
reinstall windows, get your patches.
get online and start changing passwords, a unique password
for each account at each domain/website.
get some anti virus software if you wish to not learn
what is what when it comes to email.
ask us for help. send me a private mesg and i will answer
any questions.
good luck.
<< <i>It sounds to me like someone may have a keystroke logger on your machine. Being able to hack your account the second time so quickly puts up a big red flag to me...Mike >>
What do you do to guard against that Mike?
you do not use internet explorer because attackers
target that.
you do not use outlook express or outlook, because attackers
target that.
you get a personal firewall that tells you if a program is maknig
a remote connection.
you get antivirus software.
you do not run unknown executables.
you do not goto risky websites because viewing a simple
html page controlled by an attacker can "hack you". picture
a buffer overflow in IE that is caused by reading a malformed
picture that contains malicious code.
you use best practices for a workstation. keep it private.
do not run as administrator.
oh the list goes on. attackers have a huge advantage.
<< <i>You should probably change your passwords from a different machine or get a firewall before changing passwords. You should also get an antivirus program. >>
I have Norton and I use Firefox
when you get an email from paypal. do not click any links
in the email.
open a fresh web browser and type in the www.paypal.com
yourself. log in and read your official email from paypal/ebay.
a very nice web browser that works wonderfully.
alternative to firefox and internet explorer.
www.opera.com
trust me and try it.
unless you do not trust me because i own opera.com domain.
that is my web server. that executable file called opera
is really a trojan horse. i will log your ebay username and password
and sell 50 purses.
please start thinking like that. super paranoid.
I changed all of my passwords from email to ebay and haven't had a problem since.
TC71
I have Norton antivirus.
I use both Spybot and Adaware.
I never use MS outlook.
I browse ebay 1-2 times a day at most.
I'm usually very cautious.
Thanks for the advice guys.
"Bongo hurtles along the rain soaked highway of life on underinflated bald retread tires."
~Wayne
Use Norton Antivirus or AVG Antivirus. The latter has a freeware version.
Install a firewall, either in your OS or in your router.
Do it, do it NOW.
Mark
<< <i>how about this piece of advice.
when you get an email from paypal. do not click any links
in the email.
open a fresh web browser and type in the www.paypal.com
yourself. log in and read your official email from paypal/ebay.
a very nice web browser that works wonderfully.
alternative to firefox and internet explorer.
www.opera.com
trust me and try it.
unless you do not trust me because i own opera.com domain.
that is my web server. that executable file called opera
is really a trojan horse. i will log your ebay username and password
and sell 50 purses.
please start thinking like that. super paranoid. >>
fc, I downloaded the browser, works pretty smoothly. Question is, how is it less hackable than internet explorer, especially when there are all these upgrades to explorer to patch up all sorts of things (I'm not computer literate enough to even know what is going on)?
Thanks
Michael
<< <i>I made the mistake of answering an email from what appeared to be a "buyer's" message about sending me money for items "won" from one of the fraudulent sales. That was a big mistake & I am hoping it doesn't bite me in the a$$ later on.
Be careful out there!! >>
anablep, I'm a little confused. Was the email from the 'buyer' recieved before or after you were hacked?
<< <i>I made the mistake of answering an email from what appeared to be a "buyer's" message about sending me money for items "won" from one of the fraudulent sales. That was a big mistake & I am hoping it doesn't bite me in the a$$ later on. >>
Never, EVER, click on a "respond" link in any e-mail message!
<< <i>anablep, I'm a little confused. Was the email from the 'buyer' recieved before or after you were hacked? >>
After. But I didn't realize it at the time. I hadn't checked ebay so I responded to the email thinking someone was going to send me money for an item I wasn't selling. I figured it was an email mistake at the time.
"Bongo hurtles along the rain soaked highway of life on underinflated bald retread tires."
~Wayne