Ebay account hijacked

[boomerd35]

Earlier today somebody used my ebay account to list 47 items for sale (all popular DVD box sets). What they did was put their hotmail address in the Paypal payment field. Then when the unlucky victim doesn't get his DVD's - I get the blame. Luckily I caught it pretty fast and was able to take action before anybody bought any of the DVD's (he should have priced them lower to get people to jump on them quickly). The really bad part of this was that the ebay help site said if you have a listing on your account that you didn't post, you have to end the auction early. Thing is, you have to do it one item at a time, which took a lot of time. Ebay eventually replied to my incident report and cancelled all the auctions (which I had already done). If I would have left it to ebay, there may have been several victims by the time ebay took action. My quesiton is, should I be paranoid that this guy may have my ebay password (and perhaps many more of my passwords)? Or should I assume that this guy just hacked ebay to get his listing in? I don't want to go nuts and start changing all my passwords, cancelling credit cards, etc. unless I have to.

Troy T.

[AndrewCCM]

You may want to place a watch on your other accounts... but I would guess the only thing they have is probably your ebay password. I would suggest changing that immediately (which I am sure you already did).

[boomerd35]

Yeah, I changed that password first thing. Now ebay has shut down my account and now I have to complete additional steps to get it up again. I'm glad at least I caught this before anybody paid any money.

Troy T.

[Shane]

I had the same thing happen (except they listed 120 pairs of Nike basketball shoes) - if they hacked your password on EBay, make sure to check your PayPal account (especially if you use the same password between accounts) as that is much more valuable to them.

I put my Ebay account on hold for about 3 months after that, changed all my password, deleted all my payment info from my Paypal account (both checking and credit cards) just to be safe.