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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Dan Bretta
Not sure how it happened or why because I never click on any links in those ebay spoof emails...So I'm left wondering how they got hold of my password?? I thought the email from ebay was a spoof so I ignored it...later I tried to log into my account and it wouldn't work so I had to change my password. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Matt
Dan - go through your eBay sent messages and see if the hacker did any damage. It's good you found it quickly. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: leon
I got the same message tonight but haven't hassled with anything yet. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Matt
Interesting. Someone with a Net54 vendetta? |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Dan Bretta
Matt, there's nothing in there that I didn't do...I'm wondering though if ebay cleaned up anything the hacker may have done. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Dan Bretta
Leon, is your password working? |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Matt
Interesting. I'd think you'd want to know if any emails were sent form your account - just deleting them doesn't undo any potential damage that would have resulted. Sorry this happened to you guys. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: leon
Nope, it's not...it was earlier today though....fun fun fun...... |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Dan Bretta
Okay then...how does this happen? |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Anthony S.
It was probably Marshall. Bringing noise. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Matt
Dan - could be any number of ways - most probably malware you downloaded without knowing about it that captured your credentials when you logged in to eBay and send the credentials to the hacker, but in theory they could have hacked the eBay servers and stolen people's info or network sniffed when you logged in, or other nasty stuff. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Dan Bretta
It will be interesting to see how many other Net54ers this may have affected. If it's just me and Leon I think I'd be smelling a rat. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Chris
This actually happened to me a few years ago. I NEVER open any links at all and I thought the email was a spoof until my password wouldn't work. When I called Ebay, they said the problem was real. Someone had somehow hacked my account. They didn't know how, but it had happened. I was told that it may have been some kind of spyware that can detect key strokes. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Matt
If you guys use Auctiva that had an issue the last few days with their system being hacked and since you store your credentials with them, a hacker could have gotten your credentials that way. Alternatively, any sniping service you use also has your credentials. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: joe brennan
Is this all the sudden a Vintage card collector nightmare? You are the 4th BB collector in the last week that I know of that has had their accounts highjacked. I just checked mine and so far, so good. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: leon
This happened to me about 6 months ago too. I contacted ebay and got it squared away but it was a real deal...I guess they had reason to believe someone had gotten into my account and locked it down. I didn't notice anything different and no bids were placed or anything....It just took a while to get it fixed (less than an hour)...I don't feel like messing with it tonight. I just found out when you told me, Dan....though I had gotten the email a few hours ago. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Jon Canfield
Guys - happened to me tonight as well. Same thing as you describe... got the eBay email, went to log into my account later on (using the eBay page) and my eBay password didn't work. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Dan Bretta
Hmmm...well I access ebay on two computers everyday...the one at work and the one here at home, but it's never been a problem in the past. I guess I'd feel better if ebay actually shut down my account because of that. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Matt
Jon - as I mentioned above, this could have happened any number of ways, even if you never logged into a spoofed web page. It's good that eBay is on top of this. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Jon Canfield
Dan - same thing here - I often access from multiple computers and never had a problem. However, my account was potentially "hijacked" soon after I logged on using the other computer. I also did not notice anything weird with my account - no improper emails, no bids, so items listed - nothing was out of the ordinary other than my password was changed (and later discovered to just be locked by eBay). |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Alan U
Jon, exact same thing happened to me. It was okay at work, when I got home I couldn't log on. Did an online chat with ebay and they sent me a new password. Same reason for locking my account, something about using multiple computers. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Glenn
Looks like they got me too. Anyone else? |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: smtjoy
Last 2 days I have gotten phoney emails that pretend they are from ebay, one saying I have an unpaid strike, another saying my account has been tampered with, etc. They want you to open your account so they can see what password you used and these are like cookies tracking your keystrokes, just delete the emails and dont open them. I called ebay and my account is fine, they suggest only opening ebay messages in ebay on the same pc, ok to open these on a blackberry or other pc. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: jay wolt
I have 3 eBay ID's and one of them was "hijacked" twice |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: marshall barkman
Dan.....how many people at your work use the same computer? It is very odd that both you and Leon got hacked into. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: D. Bergin
I had the same issue tonight. It was a legitimate message from Ebay. At first I thought it was a phishing attempt and just deleted it. Then I logged into Ebay and my password didn't work. Scared the crap out of me. It was in "My Messages" on Ebay also. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Dan Bretta
Marshall, I'm the only one that uses my computer at work. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: marshall barkman
It sounds to me like someone got into gavelsnipe but why are they going after baseball card folks on this board? Is it a coincidence or someone that is trying to hurt board members? |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: quan
jay, |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Marty Ogelvie
Dan, What about the email account you have registered with eBay? My ebay account was hacked a few years back and that's how they got in.. they hacked my email account and then got my eBay password emailed to my account which they had... marty |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Mark
Hello to All , |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Rhett Yeakley
The same thing happened to me tonight. Everything was fine at work, I get home after a LONG day and checked Gavelsnipe & none of my snipes had registered. So, I go into ebay and can't log in and I have the same message from ebay in my email. Hopefully, it isn't simply an ebay power-play to try an kill the sniping services. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: D. Bergin
Nice, I finally bit the bullet and started using a snipe program a week ago and this happens. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: leon
I use gavelsnipe too... |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Scott Fandango
i bet you all use the same snipe service.... |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Steve F
It's a conspiracy. I the East African warlords want our Cobby's! |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Matt
One other thought on the issue. The accounts may not have been hacked at all, and your experience may simply be the result of an overly sensitive eBay fraud alert. As one possibility, the example above of eBay triggering such an email when the computer you use to login changes. If you use a snipe service and they change servers, then you all would get that email - no hacker involved. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: leon
I haven't gotten the email ebay said they would send in order to reset the password. Anyone know a quick way to do it? Thanks in advance. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Aaron Patton
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Laura
I do wonder if there's a connection with Auctiva too. Do any of you who have been hacked use Auctiva? Or have you bought something from someone who does? |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Glenn
Leon, |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Jon Canfield
I also had a snipe on gavelsnipe last evening when I was "hacked." AFter changing my password, I updated my profile on gavelsnipe and my snipe went off without a hitch. It's possible that gavesnipe was the "computer" that triggered my alert. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Scott Daloisio
This happened to me a few times over the years. Whenever this happens to you, you want to contact "Live Help." If you are waiting for the E-mail with a new password, most of the time your hair will turn gray (or grayer or bald) before you get it. Once you get "Live Help," and verify who you are, you can ask them to phone you. They will issue you a new password. Whole process normally takes a half hour or less. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Jason
Yep I got wrangled up in this mess as well. I use Gavelsnipe. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Eric Brehm
Same thing happened to me -- I received the "Account Security Notice: Restore Account" e-mail from eBay. It said my account was being used by someone to send unauthorized messages to other users. A hold was put on my account, and I couldn't log in. Nothing I did to try to reset my password worked, including getting them to send me several password-reset PINs by phone. I kept getting "session time-out due to inactivity" type messages. Finally I contacted Live Help and they reset my password for me, and now I am back in business. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Charles
Hi Folks, |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Jim VB
For what it's worth, Gavelsnipe swears that they have checked and there was no security breach on their end. |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Matt
Jim - did you ask them if they recently changed server IPs? |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Jim VB
Matt, |
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OT: My Ebay Account Was Hijacked
Posted By: Bill Cornell
Charles' explanation above is correct. This isn't 'hacking' as it's commonly thought of. Every time you log onto eBay, it's recording information about your browser and your computer, which then becomes your 'footprint'. When they see you logging in from multiple locations (home, work, snipe service, etc.), the information doesn't match up exactly, so some accounts will get flagged as suspicious. |
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