[Newsbot]

Title: EBay 'cyberattack' prompts password change warning
Category: Tech
Posted By: Regina
Date: 2014-05-21 07:42:47
Canadian

[Regina]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ebay-cy ... -1.2650676

Oooopsy!

[DrCaleb]

I've never used Fleabay, so I'm good. But I am getting pissed off at some US based retailers who are not using chip-and-pin tech, and instead recording and storing my mag stripe details without offering me their privacy policy first.

[Regina]

I don't use it either. Think the only online thing I've purchased in years was hockey sticks. I'm not a big electronic footprint kind of guy.

[BartSimpson]

I changed my password last night. What's pathetic here is that the hackers got into eBay by using social engineering techniques on eBay employees.

No actual hacking was involved. These idiots gave away their user names and passwords to someone over the phone.

[Public_Domain]

[BartSimpson]

Public_Domain Public_Domain:

All I use are prepaid credit cards... Not much damage that can be inflicted on me. Unless they somehow fuck up package delivery, I guess.

I use prepaid credit cards, prepaid cell phones, and disposable email accounts when I travel. That way not much can be lost to thieves (official or otherwise).

[DrCaleb]

BartSimpson BartSimpson:

What's pathetic here is that the hackers got into eBay by using social engineering techniques on eBay employees.

That's actually a typical vector used more often than you'd think. Targeted trojans, spear phishing, or leaving infected USB keys lying around are also quite successful.

That's why you give people as few permissions as they need.