MSNBC Article on eBay Hacked Accounts & More

It's about time.

Is there anything we, as sellers, can do to protect our accounts (other than not giving out the information ourselves!)?

2purrcats

Change your password, for one. You could also get the security key from paypal, which also works with your Ebay account. Using that, to log in you have to type in a special code that changes every 30 seconds, in addition to your regular password. (I have one of them). I don't know how much that helps, though.

Sounds like good advice. I'll look into it. Thanks!

2purrcats

Oh, here's the link for the security key:
https://www.paypal.com/securitykey
It costs $5 for basic & premier accounts, free for Business accounts.

I checked out the PP demo, and it looks like an easy system to use. Do you know if you can use the same key for 2 different eBay IDs and a PP acct - or would I need a different key for each?

2purrcats

My understanding was that you needed a separate key for each Paypal. Least that's what I was told.

And it makes sense...Paypal would WANT to charge you as many times as possible..wouldn't they?

For more info on the hacking with screen shots...jump around this forum a bit. There's a lot of information..not just this thread.

http://www.ebaymotorssucks.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=660

Donna

What about different eBay accts? I have 2 IDs (for different types of items for sale).

2purrcats

Same here cats.

I have two different types of accounts that go with four different eBay IDs.

They told me two different keys were needed.

Go figure.
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Take care, Donna

So -- one key for any number of eBay IDs, but only one key per PP acct? Did I get it right?

2purrcats

No, I think you misunderstood Donna. I'm pretty sure that you need one key for one set of accounts. Like me, I have my main ebay account and a a paypal account linked to it. I can use my one key for both of those. But if you have another ebay account, I think you'd need to get another key.
http://pages.ebay.com/securitykey/faq.html

I think we're both misunderstanding.
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I have four eBay accounts.
Two different types of Paypal.

Two of the eBay selling account IDs should be on one key as to the type PP account I have.

The other two eBay selling account IDs should be on another key as to the type of PP account they are.

Two totally different types of PP and four different eBay IDs doing business with what type of PP suits the sales.

Hope this helps.
Donna

I got it now! Thanks. (I'm one of those neurotic detail-types!)

2purrcats

OK, so you're saying that you can have one Paypal account per key, but more than one ebay account per key. I think I got it now.