E/bay & hotmail account hacked into

C_Ronaldo

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

ebay/hotmail accounts don't get 'hacked' (generally ie 99.999999% of the time) people give out their details

this wrong in may case as i had my ebay account hijacked and i dont give out my details to anyone, i dont know how they got into my ebay account but it wanst via a phising email but possibly via some malware, if you follow whats been suggested then you can protect yourself

superscaper

C_Ronaldo wrote: »

but possibly via some malware,

I wouldn't be surprised if Blacksheep still classified that as giving out your details. I personally also still wouldn't call that hacking the account. It's still essentially data gathering and then simply entering your username and password directly only once.

C_Ronaldo

superscaper wrote: »

I wouldn't be surprised if Blacksheep still classified that as giving out your details. I personally also still wouldn't call that hacking the account. It's still essentially data gathering and then simply entering your username and password directly only once.

the funny thing is the previous week id put a new hard drive in and installed xp so they had a small window of oppurtunity to do it

Millionaire

superscaper wrote: »

I agree with others most likely down to falling for phishing emails or have a keylogger/malware on the pc (assuming the password used wasn't really simple and the same one for all accounts which makes things easier for the criminals).

I nearly fell for a phishing email recently.

Was selling an item on ebay and got a email from another member through ebay telling me they wanted to buy my product but saw the same pictures as mine on someone else's listing.

They provided me a link to view the listing but when a clicked it, it requested me to log in. I typed in the first 2 letters of my ebay id and then thought wait a minute why do i need to log in to view a listing.

Anyway reported it to ebay.

foofi22

I recommend Keepass http://keepass.info/ (free!) for storing and generating random passwords. Much more effective than remembering bad or similar passwords.

Some people I know simply use their name or DOB as a password and may wonder how their account could get "hacked". Obviously some people are genuinely unlucky (and victim to keyloggers etc), however simple passwords mean effective brute force attacks.

Keepass encrypts all your passwords with one *good* password chosen by you....excellent program all round!

p.s do NOT pay for Keepass as some unscrupulous people on eBay are offering

frivolous_fay

If you haven 't done it yet, go here to get your ebay account sorted:

http://server.iad.liveperson.net/hc/16485391/?cmd=file&file=visitorWantsToChat&site=16485391

speedtwin

Where does that go to cos it doesnt give any intencation what its for?

Back on the subject of the suspect e/bay listings the 2 i reported yesterday are now gone and another in its place this morning.

item no 200214794938

He is spending a lot of time hi-jacking accounts (it must be worth it for him) But i am only spotting them cos he uses the same layout and item.

digerati

The first defense is to NEVER share passwords or pass phrases between different websites like PayPal, eBay and Hotmail. If a hacker/phisher gets access to one account - they get them all. :eek:

frivolous_fay

speedtwin wrote: »

Where does that go to cos it doesnt give any intencation what its for?

It's a link to a human being at ebay who will sort out your account. You have to do this unless you want to risk your reputation and chances of ever using ebay again.

It's one of the useful links in the ebay forum in case you doubt my good intentions.

robt_2

frivolous_fay wrote: »

It's a link to a human being at ebay who will sort out your account. You have to do this unless you want to risk your reputation and chances of ever using ebay again.

It's one of the useful links in the ebay forum in case you doubt my good intentions.

No one was doubting your intentions.

It is bad etiquette to give a link like that though - it is not an ebay branded page, therefore people would assume it could well be a phishing site.