I woke up this morning, showered, and then checked my waiting email on my phone. It's what I do every morning. However, where I normally receive 2 to 3 emails during the night, my mailbox counter now showed 13 unread messages. Apparently, someone managed to hijack my eBay-account! I had notices of a changed password, changed address, bids and sales -- the usual bad stuff that happens to you when you 'lose' your eBay-password.
Thankfully, eBay's own server system figured out something shady was going on and blocked my account as a preventive measure. I could log into my account if I would enter the answer to my 'secret' question. That in itself shouldn't be too hard, but apparently the hacker was smart enough to change these answers too. Ergo: not just the hacker, but I had been locked out of my account too.
I'm glad to say that eBay has a very good 'live help'-system that connects you to a bot-like representative. They were able to look into their old database records and after giving them some personal details they reset my password. They also fixed all the outstanding bids and sales and feedback related to the 'fraudulent activity'. The annoying thing is that I use the same password for a whole bunch of other sites (including SG), so I'm currently changing my password all around the internet. Urgh. Ah well, at least my credit card details were safe. I don't think I could stand the thought of some Nigerian scammer listening to tunes on an iPod he bought with my credit card
Thankfully, eBay's own server system figured out something shady was going on and blocked my account as a preventive measure. I could log into my account if I would enter the answer to my 'secret' question. That in itself shouldn't be too hard, but apparently the hacker was smart enough to change these answers too. Ergo: not just the hacker, but I had been locked out of my account too.
I'm glad to say that eBay has a very good 'live help'-system that connects you to a bot-like representative. They were able to look into their old database records and after giving them some personal details they reset my password. They also fixed all the outstanding bids and sales and feedback related to the 'fraudulent activity'. The annoying thing is that I use the same password for a whole bunch of other sites (including SG), so I'm currently changing my password all around the internet. Urgh. Ah well, at least my credit card details were safe. I don't think I could stand the thought of some Nigerian scammer listening to tunes on an iPod he bought with my credit card