Re: E Bay security breach ?
Originally posted by Andrew Leigh:<br /> The first line of the e-mail has my user name and shows my unique
PASSWORD
that I use to gain access to the internet.<br /><br />Andrew
Your email didn't come from eBay.<br /><br />Do you mean that the email has the password that you normally use to log on to the internet, as distinct from a password assigned to you in the email?<br /><br />If it's the former, you're in trouble. <br /><br />You may have spyware on your computer that is sending data to someone without your knowledge. If it has your password it's probably got into your password files or there's a keystroke logger or other logger in the spyware. If it's a keystroke logger it can pick up every keystroke you make,including internet banking and bank account numbers and passwords.<br /><br />Download Spybot for free at
http://www.spybot.info/en/download/index.html <br />and run it to see if there's spyware on your computer. <br /><br />If you can't find anything with Spybot, get a computer tech to check your computer.<br /><br />Don't use your computer for anything sensitive, like banking, until you're sure your computer is clean or you might find your account cleaned out. Or, worse, your identity might be stolen and debts incurred in your name, which you'll have a lot of trouble avoiding. <br /><br />What I don't understand is why anyone would advertise that they have your password. Usually they want to keep that quiet. Maybe they want to set up an eBay account in your name to sell dodgy goods or commit a fraud in your name.<br /><br />As already posted, under no circumstances click on any links in the email or otherwise respond to it.<br /><br />Edit: If you want to know where it came from, and assuming you're using some form of MS Outlook, highlight the email in your Inbox list (DO NOT open it!) then click on File, then Properties, then Details. I bet eBay isn't the source, although it'll have an ostensible eBay sender somewhere in all that garbage.
