Posted by guv on 03/22/07 00:20

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:25:14 -0000, "Gunther Gloop" <me@privacy.net>
wrote:

>"D L S" <todamon@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:1174492693.640621.279920@e1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
>> On Mar 21, 10:58 am, "Gunther Gloop" <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>>> Yesterday I got 5 emails from an ebay customer, sent via ebay to my ebay
>>> userid, telling me to go shop for their products (or something).
>>>
>>> Today ebay emailed me to say "It appears that your eBay password has
>>> become
>>> known to a third party."
>>
>> Or something? I usually get the ones saying they have bought some item
>> I was not selling and demanding to know when I am sending it. On the
>> same email will be a link to a spoofed ebay site they hope I will
>> click. What annoys me is that they use my genuine "ebay only" email
>> address.
>>
>
>
>That's whats so strange. If it had genuinely been compromised by a
>third-party how would ebay know before I would? How would they know it
>wasn't me trying to do some scam?
>
>That's why my guess is ebay themselves have compromised my details, then
>changed my password. Or possibly they tracked a number of 'attacks' on my
>account, then changed my password.
>Not sure how or why -or what _actually_ happened of course.
>
>I hadn't logged in to my ebay account in any way for the past few _months_,
>but obviously I would rather retain my existing ebay account.

The same thing happened to me about a year ago. Nothing had been done
in my account, but I did have to change the password - and from memory
it was a real pain to get it done. Sorry I cant remember the links to
do it - but as stated it was a lot of hassle.

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