Done. cheers for the heads up
It's not even an option not to change your password--try to sign into ebay, and you get redirected to a forced password change page. And the volume of traffic on ebay is so high right now that the page fails. Maybe I'll just drive over there...
I went to go change it... and, apparently, my account no longer even exists. heh, guess that solves that - thanks for the heads up all the same!
Thanks. I was able to log in and change the password. Everything looked to be in order. I had just purchased something on Ebay a week or so back. Everything seemed OK.
Someone hacked into my e-mail, and e-bay and PayPal accounts a few years back, right after I did the friend finder thing on Facebook. I had to spend hours on the phone with both companies deleting my accounts etc.
That is the last time I ever trusted any games or other options on Facebook. I can't be sure it was Facebook , but I ain't playing with whatever they want me to do on Facebook.
I've been selling on eBay (and about to sell a LOT of gear) and, as of the time I created this thread, they still hadn't started telling their members... I just got back to the PC, went on eBay and no redirect for me still (although I did change my password earlier today).
As for Fuckbook? Don't use it and won't. I had a business partner a few years ago get a nasty virus that then emails itself to everyone on his email list and, being the VP of Sales, that list was huge. It caused us two days of downtime because we all opened his email since it looked normal. We had to contact all of our vendors, customers and potential customers as well - while grateful that we had called them, they weren't too happy about it.
CraigBert — May 22, 2014I've been selling on eBay (and about to sell a LOT of gear) and, as of the time I created this thread, they still hadn't started telling their members... I just got back to the PC, went on eBay and no redirect for me still (although I did change my password earlier today).
As for Fuckbook? Don't use it and won't. I had a business partner a few years ago get a nasty virus that then emails itself to everyone on his email list and, being the VP of Sales, that list was huge. It caused us two days of downtime because we all opened his email since it looked normal. We had to contact all of our vendors, customers and potential customers as well - while grateful that we had called them, they weren't too happy about it.
These go out all the time. It's just a little common sense. Don't click on links on facebook that look dubious. They usually are. I pretty much know my mother in law is not "liking" videos of chicks in bikinis.
I wish it had been that easy, but the email came directly from our VP of Sales asking us to check out the video linked and, unfortunately, it looked exactly like his usual emails. At the time, we were testing marketing videos ourselves so nobody had their spam senses tingling. I was the only one in our company it didn't get because I was using Eset (a paid A/V - and the one I still use) and everyone else was using one of the free ones (AVG).