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EBay hack
This is "negative feedback" for EBay.
I recently got an email notifying me that I had won an auction on some cookie cutters. WTF, over? I've made no bids on anything on EBay for many months. Shortly thereafter I got an email "invoice" from the seller. I notified both seller and EBay that I had not bid on the item and did not want it. I initially suspected the seller, but upon visit to EBay it did look like I'd bid and the seller has plenty of positive feedback. EBay stonewalled me. My inquiry was first met with all the ways it could be my bad: other members of my household, using a public computer at school, library or internet cafe, yada yada. Yeah, OK, I told them none of the above applied. Their response to that was much of the same canned stuff from the first response. Meanwhile, the seller accepted the notion that I'd been hacked and said forget it, he'd repost, suggested that I cancel my account and open a new one. I posted positive feedback for him on EBay for being an honorable gentleman and A1 EBay citizen. Hokay, that matter parked with honor and civility among gentlemen, back to EBay. They'd told me twice to vet my household and change my password. I told them that my household is provably secure, skipping details since they demonstrably don't read or believe my responses. There are only the two of us. Mary has held credentials and clearances the pencilneck dweebs at Ebay never heard of. Her trustworthyness is a matter of federal record after thorough vetting by the FBI and Lord knows what other agency checks. Ditto me. Cancelling the account would too easily let EBay off the hook they're trying so hard to avoid with fancy dancing. In my last response, I told them that I'd changed my password to one produced by one of the several encryption algorithms generally recognized as robust, nevermind which one. Mean time to crack by hack at 100 tries per second would be many millions of years -- nevermind how many millions as a clue to sequence length other than it is ten or less. Any random password of given length would meet this test; it was just easiest to generate it using an encryption algorithm since I had one handy. Random is random, however done. I can blow smoke too. I mentioned that if my identity is hacked again it would be clear evidence that an insider at EBay is responsible. I cc'd the MN Attorney General's office on that post. I've received no smoke-o-grams from EBay in response to my last, not even a roger. Go figure.... BTW, PayPal is a subsidiary of EBay. PayPal demands personal financial info they shouldn't need to do what they purport to do. Pick yer pony, take yer ride. |
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