1954 Aaron PSA 4 Something off

[xplainer]

Originally Posted by earlywynnfan

Emailed the second seller, and he said his account was hijacked and he's already reached out to the buyer.

Q: how does this happen? If someone hijacks my account, would I see the item in my "sale" section? When it's paid for, does it go to MY paypal?

I don't understand either. Don't you know what is going on in your account?
Yeah, and emails saying your accounted has been added to. Strange indeed.

[begsu1013]

ebay suffered a hack about 8 months or so ago.

the hackers only got dormant account handles and passwords.

so 99% of the folks have absolutely no clue that their account got hacked.

i've got pretty good at spotting these and there are some tips included in how to thwart/protect yourself....

i still pull the trigger if there's a chance simply because i know exactly how to not make it a nightmare should it be bogus...

so far outta 5 attempts only 1 was an actual deal.

https://forums.collectors.com/messag...&keyword1=odds

[Peter_Spaeth]

This was a very active account, and recently.

[begsu1013]

hmm. maybe they did get access to active accounts as well and have just burned thru all the dormant ones first.

that would be truly scary.

who knows these days.

if some of these folks actually put the thought/time/effort to some sort of legitimate enterprise, they'd have no reason to do any of this...

ball of confusion.

[Jobu]

Let this conversation serve as a reminder to all: change your Ebay passwords.

[irv]

Originally Posted by Jobu

Let this conversation serve as a reminder to all: change your Ebay passwords.

Yep, received an e-mail months ago about a possible attack on my account.

Finally got around to changing it yesterday (been years since I used it) and I changed it to something that came up as "strong" meaning it will be difficult to hack.
Doesn't mean it's fool proof, but it makes them work for it, and possibly give up on it.

I suggest various capitals, numbers and symbols like these !@#$%^&* mixed in/throughout.

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by irv

Yep, received an e-mail months ago about a possible attack on my account.



Finally got around to changing it yesterday (been years since I used it) and I changed it to something that came up as "strong" meaning it will be difficult to hack.

Doesn't mean it's fool proof, but it makes them work for it, and possibly give up on it.



I suggest various capitals, numbers and symbols like these !@#$%^&* mixed in/throughout.

https://lastpass.com

With Lastpass, you create one and only one really secure password that you can remember (or write it down and put it in your wallet), and then let the software create random, maximum length and complexity passwords (that you will never have to remember) for each of your website accounts. That way if one of your passwords is compromised, it won't work on other sites, since they're different for each one.