Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I sold my last DVD collection lot last weekend. I have nothing to do with Jeff's DVD's. Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342@cox.net> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 7:12 PM Subject: [Leica] Close call on fleabay > This morning, I suddenly got a stream of emails confirming the stuff I put > up for auction on ebay (I hadn't). Figuring that it was another phishing > expedition, I went to "My Ebay" and saw a gaggle of crap that someone had > put up for auction under my name (a bunch of DVD collections). After > pooping > my pants, I got on the phone and told ebay to pull the plug on those > auctions. After about 20 minutes of talking to two guys on the phone, it > occurred to me that my ebay name and my password were very close to being > the same(!). With Firefox routinely filling my name and password in for me, > I hadn't noticed the similarity. > > For those of you who frequent ebay as a buyer or seller, change your > password to something *ungodly*. I went to my password database (with all > of > the online stores, banking, credit cards, ebay, email, and the like, I have > 89 entries). Of the 89 entries in that database, 13 were the same password > that the ebay hacker deduced. > > Scary. > > Jeffery Smith > New Orleans, LA > http://www.400tx.com > http://400tx.blogspot.com/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information