bruno22rf Posted July 28, 2015 Report Share Posted July 28, 2015 Just a warning to Ebay users on here-just had over £3.5k taken from my Paypal account via Ebay for 2 items that I have not purchased-the hackers must be stateside because the items were bought in dollars and are being posted to an American address. I have no idea whatsoever how this has been done and have deffo not been on any unusual/new sites (however, my 14 year old daughter was on my laptop all day yesterday)-please consider changing you passwords if you have not done so for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the enigma Posted July 28, 2015 Report Share Posted July 28, 2015 Not good, hope you get sorted out quickly. On a similar vein, I had a dodgy email supposedly from paypal yesterday. It was a receipt for 3 months subscription to skype. It had a link at the bottom for you to click on if you wanted to dispute the payment. Looked very convincing, you can't be too careful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lloyd90 Posted July 29, 2015 Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 I had similar recently but for £50. EBay recognised it electronically as suspicious and froze my account. Give them a ring as I actually found them quite good and helpful. Best of luck mate. It's quite a sickening experience and mine was only for £50. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy. Posted July 29, 2015 Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 (edited) I hate to say it, but it is extremely unlikely that your account was 'hacked'. You will have fallen prey to a phishing email, or at worst, accessed your account on an unsecured wireless network. Essentially handing over your username and password to the thieves. Most people think that if you fall prey to a phishing email, that it's game over, but there are security changes everyone needs to make to their personal and financial accounts RIGHT NOW which will protect you from all future phishing attacks. Turn on Two Factor Verification Any online service worth its salt will offer two step as a login feature; Paypal, iCloud, Facebook, Dropbox... The full list is here Two Factor/Step is a way of authenticating a user by requesting a secondary verification by a means which is beyond an intruder's scope of information. A text or phone call is made to your mobile and a 'one time' pin number is delivered which needs to be inputted into the browser. Without this code, the account cannot be accessed and repeated attempts will suspend the account. Moreover, you get a text the second someone has attempted to access your account. I know this isn't going to help matters now, but 99.99% of the time, the blame rests with the user not the company. If Paypal got hacked, it would be worldwide news. Edited July 29, 2015 by Billy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrM Posted July 29, 2015 Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 I hate to say it, but it is extremely unlikely that your account was 'hacked'. You will have fallen prey to a phishing email, or at worst, accessed your account on an unsecured wireless network. Essentially handing over your username and password to the thieves. Most people think that if you fall prey to a phishing email, that it's game over, but there are security changes everyone needs to make to their personal and financial accounts RIGHT NOW which will protect you from all future phishing attacks. Turn on Two Factor Verification Any online service worth its salt will offer two step as a login feature; Paypal, iCloud, Facebook, Dropbox... The full list is here Two Factor/Step is a way of authenticating a user by requesting a secondary verification by a means which is beyond an intruder's scope of information. A text or phone call is made to your mobile and a 'one time' pin number is delivered which needs to be inputted into the browser. Without this code, the account cannot be accessed and repeated attempts will suspend the account. Moreover, you get a text the second someone has attempted to access your account. I know this isn't going to help matters now, but 99.99% of the time, the blame rests with the user not the company. If Paypal got hacked, it would be worldwide news. +1 - Excellent advice there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rec-baller Posted July 29, 2015 Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 I got "done " about 3 years go , took £5000 out of the bank in 2 transaction,s via PayPal,, caused me a nightmare month, I had too freeze bank accounts, credit cards etc , even had my mortgage suspended till we could sort it all out ,,, Shaun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark@mbb Posted July 29, 2015 Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 I have a mate in the states who buys them for me then ships the things over and i send him the money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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