Change your ebay password now.

GasBandit · May 21, 2014

Here we go again.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/21/ebay-alerts-users-to-change-passwords-following-cyberattack/

PatrThom · May 21, 2014

Too late. I changed it four hours and thirty-five minutes ago.

--Patrick

Hailey Knight · May 22, 2014

Doesn't say if we should do the same for Paypal.

I'm laughing because in changing my password I just discovered that I never changed my registered address from my college mailbox. Think I'll leave it that way in light of this.

jwhouk · May 22, 2014

1. Already did it first thing yesterday when I saw it hit the wires.
2. It does not appear to have affected PayPal.
3. I'm trying to remember the last thing I even purchased on eBay. I think it was pre-move.

WasabiPoptart · May 22, 2014

I did both EBay and PayPal. I hadn't changed my PayPal password in a while, so it was due anyway.

Hailey Knight · May 22, 2014

Pertinent Question: why did I have to find out from my friends here instead of getting an email from eBay?

jwhouk · May 22, 2014

The same reason why I learned of my job demise back in '11 from a newspaper website: it was the first place I saw anything about it.

PatrThom · May 22, 2014

Zero Esc said:
Pertinent Question: why did I have to find out from my friends here instead of getting an email from eBay?

http://www.salon.com/2014/04/28/one_womans_attempt_to_hide_her_pregnancy_from_big_data/

--Patrick

Hailey Knight · May 22, 2014

PatrThom said:
http://www.salon.com/2014/04/28/one_womans_attempt_to_hide_her_pregnancy_from_big_data/

--Patrick

Um ... you sure you linked the right article? I'm not catching the connection.

Unless you mean that eBay never intended for us to know.

PatrThom · May 22, 2014

It's an article describing how the Internet can know things before you do, like that Target girl's case.

--Patrick

Hailey Knight · May 22, 2014

PatrThom said:
It's an article describing how the Internet can know things before you do, like that Target girl's case.

--Patrick

Yeah, I read the article, and if that's the case, I'm still confused as to its relevance. What I mean is, why didn't eBay send out an email to its users like a business should? This story broke yesterday--still haven't gotten an email from them. If I hadn't seen this topic, I wouldn't have known. This is not how you conduct business.

PatrThom · May 22, 2014

I suppose they are still circling the wagons and don't yet feel ready to announce "official" action.

--Patrick

jwhouk · May 22, 2014

No, it's on their official blog.

GasBandit · May 28, 2014

I just got the "change your password" e-mail from ebay an hour ago.

Hailey Knight · May 28, 2014

Over a week.

Fucking scumbags.

Tinwhistler · May 28, 2014

GasBandit said:
I just got the "change your password" e-mail from ebay an hour ago.

I got it a couple of days ago. Perhaps they were rolling them out in batches.