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

[Mayhew, Chris N.]

I’d greatly appreciate it if this list could be kept on topic too.  Myself and others have subscribed to this in order to learn about enterprise ISP outages.  I watch this list like a hawk as ISP issues always cause a barrage of problems for myself and others on here.  It’s quite a disruption to keep reading about people’s personal problems, or problems with websites.  There are many great community’s and mailing lists that are not this one, for that type of discussion.

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Chris Mayhew | Systems Administrator
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From: Outages [mailto:outages-bounces at outages.org] On Behalf Of Carlos Alvarez via Outages
Sent: April 5, 2016 15:40
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Subject: Re: [outages] eBay password changes -- were they attacked?

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<mailto:outages at outages.org>> wrote:

On 5 Apr 2016, at 15:29, Joe Zabramski via Outages <outages at outages.org<mailto: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<http://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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