eBay compromised - change your password!

You really think that a company as big as eBay is going to look at the options:

A. Tell our users that in the interest of security we are going to change the password criteria and get them to change our passwords, which will piss off a few users

or

B. Let's pretend we had a MASSIVE security lapse, that undermines peoples confidence in not only our auction site, but Paypal as well.

Use you bonce mate, it's pretty obvious what's happened.

 

ebay is lame. considering i rarely it i just went to go change my password anyways and.. i cant! because the site is having tech difficulties and to try again later. what a joke!!

 

Yep, just got the same message when I signed in. Sucky thing is I just redid my password after hearing about it unofficially. Now that there was an official message and warning on my ebay dashboard I had to do it again.

 

I had an email from eBay saying password should be changed (not must).

Then when I logged in I had to change it straight away.

 

lol, don't need to be so harsh.

I know you are right and in fact I would change the password for less than that. I was more like, why news sites are warning about this before ebay. If its official, ok, but I prefer waiting the offical announcement.
I've tried changing before and after the ebay dot com avertising it. And they changed the password page. Before there was 3 fields and now they email the reset link. Issues perhaps...

 

I wonder if this is going to be like the Target breach in which they keep lying to the consumer about how much info was stolen.