Ebay account hacked!

fjon

I noticed today I had an email saying I'd submitted a listing on ebay. I checked my account, and sure enough, there was a listing for a "New 100%Auth. Brown Chloe Paddington Bag" for $118.
I quickly got in touch with ebay, who deleted the listing, refunded me the insertion fee and "secured" my account.
I then also changed my ebay, paypal and email passwords just in case.

I am usually quite security conscious, and would never fall for a phishing email, nor enter my username/ password anywhere dodgy. I was quite surprised this had happened to me, and presume it is down to having a "weak" password.

I was wondering though - how would the person who hacked my account benefit from this? If someone had won the auction, the money would have been paid into my paypal account, right? Or were they planning to hack into that account also, and collect the money there?
Or is there some other trick they have for making money out of it?

tk123

I'm just after getting a mail off them saying they've removed a listing for 2 Champions League Final Tickets that I never listed?!?!

fjon

Well I guess that would be the same problem I had!
Pretty dodgy alright!

Bluehair

fjon wrote:

Or is there some other trick they have for making money out of it?

I've seen auctions that state 'Do not contact me via ask seller a question i cannont answer this way send emails to bla@whatever.com'

Very dodgy and usually accompanied by 'no longer accepting paypal due various bull**** excuses'.

Timely warning to all of us to keep passwords a bit varied and hard to guess, ebay is great and all but my bs dedector is always on high alert on there, anything the slightest bit wierd and i just don't bother.

JJ

Yes, they usually hack into an account, set up a listing telling potential buyers to email them at a certain email address then they try to conduct the transaction off eBay, usually asking for money via Western Union.