oojavaguru Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 If you have an Ebay account, change your password now. Otherwise you'll be prompted too later today: http://www.ebayinc.com/in_the_news/story/ebay-inc-ask-ebay-users-change-passwords Later today, eBay will begin asking all of its 112 million customers to change their passwords, in the wake of a newly discovered database breach. The breach compromised a database containing a list of encrypted passwords that, once released in the wild, could potentially be decrypted through publicly available tools. As a result, eBay is asking users to change passwords as soon as possible. Officials say no financial data was implicated, and the company hasn't found any evidence of unauthorized activity resulting from breach. The attack itself took place some time between late February and early March, when attackers obtained a group of employee log-in credentials, allowing access to the larger database. Even after the attack, eBay wasn't aware of the compromise until two weeks ago, and it took detailed forensic analysis to implicate the password database, resulting in today's announcement. In addition to passwords, the database contained basic login information like name, email, phone number, address and date of birth, but officials stressed that, aside from the passwords, no confidential or personal information was included in the breach. Paypal was not involved in the breach, as PayPal data is kept on a separate network with higher levels of encryption. Still, a site-wide password reset is generally seen as the best response to this kind of breach. eBay also reminded users to make the change at any other sites where they had used the same password, a bad security practice that is nonetheless widespread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
futures Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Thanks for the heads up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Better yet, delete your eBay profile Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmoney Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Delete your internet just to be safe. Fridge Fox, Princess Logan, The Saint and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horrorbusiness138 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Damn. eBay got hacked? But then again those hackers get everyone eventually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbruise Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 With all these sites being hacked lately and for the rest of time, everybody should use LastPass or a similar service. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eshame Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 With all these sites being hacked lately and for the rest of time, everybody should use LastPass or a similar service. do you (or anyone here) use lastpass or something like it? isn't it kinda weird that you don't know your passwords for anything? what if lastpass is compromised? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbruise Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 I do use LastPass.. no its not weird not knowing my passwords its auto filled for me, they're all something like JG75876%$&^%gjkBj... and if LastPass is compromised then we're all fucked? Also, use a VPN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tittus Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Second lastpass. I use it for work and personal. Great great tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerseydave77 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Maybe there will be enough hacks that we'll all be going back to Brick & Mortars and paying cash. I've had three frauds in my checking in two years and a couple before that. I've had a credit card fraud. It's really pretty nutty. I'm buying less and less online for things I can avoid but we all know that the Amazon discount will eventually convince me to give my new credit card anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisWithanF Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 I use 1Password, It stores an encrypted file locally, and has a pretty snazzy interface. It's not free like LastPass, but they had a good sale during all of the heartbleed stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RowBearToe Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Thanks for the heads up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snaggle Von Swift Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Delete your internet just to be safe. It goes far beyond the internet. You need to delete your entire being. No more existing, at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 DELETE YOUR BUTTS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abovetheearth Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 im not doing this until i get an email from Ebay in telling me so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 DELETE YOUR STUPID FUCKING FACES ALSO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamalatapes Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 probably more importantly might want to change your PayPal PW since it's linked I D K ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchard Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 im not doing this until i get an email from Ebay in telling me so. It's being covered on every major news outlet. Pretty sure this is legit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abovetheearth Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 mainstream news is shit. they always jump so fast and everyone follows suit. not saying i wont at some point but until i hear from eBay...its staying the same. Duff and videogamesandvinyl 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuzzersonKillwell Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 Barrack Hussein Obama and the liberal media want your eBay passwords to fund abortions. I heard it on Twitter. imaxcowboyx and GradedOnACurve 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock N Roll Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 DELETE YOUR BUTTS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mitchard Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 mainstream news is shit. they always jump so fast and everyone follows suit. not saying i wont at some point but until i hear from eBay...its staying the same. You're aware of the link in the original post FROM EBAY though, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abovetheearth Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 yes. as i read this sentence: Beginning later today, eBay users will be notified via email i followed that i was going to wait for this. I'm not too concerned. It's been breached for quite some time now. Nothing on my end has changed and when i get that email, ill change it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesus Of Suburbia Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 The attack happened in FEBRUARY. I love how they told us about this hacking 3 months later Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattisr1984 Posted May 21, 2014 Share Posted May 21, 2014 The attack happened in FEBRUARY. I love how they told us about this hacking 3 months later isnt that pretty much standard protocal? ya know, so they can "assess" the breach... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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