The post below regarding Wild tripod parts reminds me that I heard on the radio today that eBay had a massive hack a couple of months ago in which names, passwords, email addresses, physical addresses, birth dates and phone numbers were stolen. According to the radio report, eBay is advising all users to change their passwords ASAP.
The NY Times is carrying the story as well, so I don't think it's a hoax. Remarkably, I see nothing about it on the eBay site or in any contact from eBay. Why it took them so long to fess up to this is beyond me, and why they're not madly notifying all their users is another mystery.
Advice at this point is to change your eBay password ASAP.
I've seen the warning on magazine and tech sites.
EBAY has not issued any warning on their sites or by email.
If anyone does hack into my account, it will not get them anything.
There is no personal account information there except my name, address and phone number.
That is obtainable thru google on my BOR site.
To buy something they would need to hack into my PAYPAL
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It's real. There is now a banner across the top of Ebay when you visit the site.
Last night when I changed my password, I had a message from eBay regarding the need for a password change. You had to go out of your way to find it, though, by signing in and checking your message box.
EBAY owns (is)PAYPAL
I have a separate password for PayPal. Do you think their records are combined so both would be compromised?
> I have a separate password for PayPal. Do you think their records are combined so both would be compromised?
Probably not, but a password change never hurts.
I use one of the little gizmos that generates a one-time number for my PayPal login as extra protection.
I try to keep very little in my paypal and bank account that paypal draws from
