[outages] eBay password changes -- were they attacked?

[Carlos Alvarez]

This is not outages-discuss.

And eBay password phishing is not an outage.


On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Joe Abley via Outages <outages at outages.org>
wrote:

>
> On 5 Apr 2016, at 15:29, Joe Zabramski via Outages <outages at outages.org>
> wrote:
>
> I received a very similar message from Amazon on 3/7/16.  Discussion
> boards seemed to indicate it was legit, however my password was never
> actually changed by Amazon as the e-mail indicated, nor did I ever change
> it manually as a result.
>
> The e-mail also appeared legit on the headers, but now that I look at a
> little more closely it originated from amazonses.com which is seems like
> it might be an e-mail service you can subscribe to?
>
>
> My assumption would have been that it was a phishing attempt, and that any
> credentials I had shared in response to the e-mail ought to be assumed
> compromised immediately.
>
> I'm not familiar with this "discussion board" approach to trusting
> unexpected requests for login details.
>
>
> Joe
>
>
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