Technical Tidbits

Yet another attempted hack at my eBay account today. Yet another RoadRunner IP address!

I tried to send them the e-mail showing their user’s IP but they sent me back this blah, blah BS automated response. Obviously, the ISP’s don’t care! Nice.

Anyway, this time, it was a simple request that they be e-mailed their forgotten password. Nice try! But there’s no way you’re getting in now! I have a secret weapon!

More on that later……..

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As if we’re not busy enough with this website and our clients, our eBay account was hacked this morning.

I received an e-mail this morning from eBay confirming that they had changed my e-mail address as requested. What???? My real name was in the e-mail BUT, the ISP address and the IP address of the alleged “me” did not match!

First of all, the IP address is registered to Road Runner according to http://ws.arin.net/whois/

I have Comcast as an ISP and a Comcast IP address, not Road Runner.

Secondly,  the ISP address is part of the “Blackhole” so it’s not a valid ISP.

Now, this raises two questions.

1. How did my account get hacked when my password was not a hackable one?

2. Why did it get hacked when there is nothing in the account that would be of benefit. No checking account information, and so forth.

Now, mind you, I’m not what you would call a “Conspiracy Theorist” but I’m beginning to wonder about some strange things I’m noticing recently.

I had sent in for one of those PayPal key chain automatic password generators and never activated it. (It was more for research then anything else.)  Could PayPal have purposely hacked my eBay account because I wasn’t using it? Makes you wonder!

The reason I’m suspicious of this type of activity is because I’ve seen some activity on our web logs that bothers me.  But more on that later.

For now, make sure your eBay account has not been compromised in case this is going around.

Now, back to changing ALL my passwords on every account I have to make sure they are tighter then they were before…..

Stay safe, Debbie

Debbie

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