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eBay Accounts Compromised
eBay is reporting that, due to the compromise of an employee account in late February/early March, all of their customers' data is possibly compromised. Their Press Release says "no evidence of any unauthorized access to financial or credit card information" was seen, but intruders got "eBay customers' name, encrypted password, email address, physical address, phone number and date of birth".
They say that "beginning later today [eBay] will be asking eBay users to change their passwords".
eBay Tells Users To Change Passwords
No longer a surprise when this happens, but hurts a little that they took 2 months to inform their users!
http://m.aljazeera.com/story/201452113462206983
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(Score: 2) by omoc on Thursday May 22 2014, @07:04PM
You're doing something wrong, it's as simple as this:
http://cgi1.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?CloseAccount& guest=1 [cgi1.ebay.de]
(Score: 2) by SGT CAPSLOCK on Saturday May 24 2014, @05:11AM
Filling out that form responds:
We can't close your account at this time because:
Unfortunately, we can't close your account yet, because it has been suspended, restricted, or is otherwise not meeting minimum seller standards. Until you have resolved this matter, your account must remain open. If you would like to appeal your suspension or have an account reviewed by a member of our Trust & Safety team, please contact us.
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My account is not locked, suspended, or anything like that, but something in their system thinks that it is. In fact, I have no messages, I have 100% positive feedback on a large amount of transactions, I have no outstanding fees, and I've never had any problems until I decided to close the account.
I can't be bothered to deal with their outsourced call center workers over the phone any more to try and figure it out. From what I understand (and nahh, I can't really understand them), they have no idea what's wrong either.
At one point I even went as far as to email privacy@ebay.com to tell them that I don't agree to their Terms of Service, EULA, Privacy Disclaimer, etc, and that I've posted my account's name and password on various forums [which was a lie]. They really don't care. It's still open. They just say to call customer support... again... and again... and again...