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eBay hacked. Change your password.


Casper

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Another thing, for those of you that reuse passwords...use the same password in multiple places. You need to change it everywhere else if your Ebay password matches something else...like your bank. Also, you need to stop being an :asshat: and use different passwords for different places.

 

At least the important places. So your bank is different from your email and so on.

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Tried it via ebay online, wouldn't work, so I called them.  After about a 15 min wait, the guy online tried to make it work, said I should try later because they were experiencing heavy volume and maybe thats why ti wouldn't accept my new pw....lol don't ya just love it...lol

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I got the email request for password change today. It's been 5 days. A little slow.

 

edit: and yeah, finding where to change password 5 days ago was incredibly difficult...

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That is messed up!

 

Even if you look at the entropy of each of those:

Password1 - 40.(something) bits of entropy

the first 20 characters of the random string = 72.(something) bits of entropy...

 

EEESH! - wonder what algorithm(s) ebay uses to calculate password strength and complexity....

Potentially they look for an upper case character within the password before determining it to be stronger?

 

Note to self... Ebay security might be as bad as facebook privacy...

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 Ebay security might be as bad as facebook privacy...

 

That is the general opinion of the security community. That all the delays were for them to shore things up before the password change, so they didn't have to ask customers to do it twice. Looks like they failed. I closed my account with them.

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