HEADS UP - Ebay Hacked

[Fireengines]

eBay's morning just went from bad to worse. The e-commerce site confirmed Wednesday that its corporate network was hacked and a database with users' passwords was compromised. While eBay says there is no evidence that users' financial information was accessed in the hack, the company is telling all users to change their passwords.

eBay hacked, requests all users change passwords - CNET

 

[Carl Fisher]

That's why I use the little RSA key token. My password on both ebay and paypal is useless without appending the rolling 6-digit code.

Will change anyway. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[walshjp17]

That's why I use the little RSA key token. My password on both ebay and paypal is useless without appending the rolling 6-digit code.

Very smart. I use LastPass to generate looooong, mixed species passwords and change them often. In fact, I don't even know what the password is, LastPass generates the passwords and takes care of logging me in and out automagically.:wink:

 

[tbroye]

John

Where do you get that key token. Just changed the password on Ebay and recently on PayPal. Where do you get Last Pass.

Thanks

 

[walshjp17]

John Where do you get that key token. Just changed the password on Ebay and recently on PayPal. Where do you get Last Pass. Thanks

LastPass.com. There is a free version and a Pro version ($12/yr). The Pro version allows you to use tokens such as the YubiKey.

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[walshjp17]

John Where do you get that key token. Just changed the password on Ebay and recently on PayPal. Where do you get Last Pass. Thanks

LastPass.com

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[Carl Fisher]

There is also this:
https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin?c...curitycenter/PayPalSecurityKey-outside&bn_r=o

I have an older version that is a key fob that works on both ebay and paypal. looks like they've moved to a smartphone or credit card style one that I'm not sure if it works for both still or not.

But it's free so it might be worth looking into.