I guess this is yet another benefit of being flat broke without any credit, ya?  No one can take what you don't have... 

No but they can take your identity, create a bunch of new accounts, rack them up and all the bills come to you.
 
That's why the "real" me has no online identity. The best defense is a good offence, right? My entire online existence is made up using aliases, false impersonations, dead relatives, and stol...
 
never mind.

soens
No but they can take your identity, create a bunch of new accounts, rack them up and all the bills come to you.
 
That's why the "real" me has no online identity. The best defense is a good offence, right? My entire online existence is made up using aliases, false impersonations, dead relatives, and stol...
 
never mind.

And that is exactly why I always use YOUR identity Craig! 

Hi,
 
At this point I DO NOT recommend changing the password.
 
If there are bots tracking the connections (which would have happened!), your changing of the information will get tracked and busted yet again. Specially now, when it's obvious.
 
I find it strange. They tell you they got hacked and then tell you to login again ... and we must think that hackers are stupid!
 
Unbelievable! 

Moshkiae
Hi,
 
At this point I DO NOT recommend changing the password.
 
If there are bots tracking the connections (which would have happened!), your changing of the information will get tracked and busted yet again. Specially now, when it's obvious.
 
I find it strange. They tell you they got hacked and then tell you to login again ... and we must think that hackers are stupid!
 
Unbelievable! 

 
If a company tells you your password has been compromised and you don't change it, you have only yourself to blame.

I changed it to the same one it used to be just to mess them up.

Moshkiae
Hi,
 
At this point I DO NOT recommend changing the password.
 
If there are bots tracking the connections (which would have happened!), your changing of the information will get tracked and busted yet again. Specially now, when it's obvious.
 
I find it strange. They tell you they got hacked and then tell you to login again ... and we must think that hackers are stupid!
 
Unbelievable! 

Um, if you have bots on your computer, it has nothing to do with ebay getting hacked and you shouldn't be doing anything on your computer - except getting rid of the bots.
 
 
And "bots", whatever you think that means, cannot monitor everything that happens inside a network without being noticed, if they can at all.  
 
Unless you're living inside a movie that is, because those are typically written by people who have no clue how things really work.

I changed it to the same one it used to be just to mess them up.

 
I know you did. I just changed it back for you.

craigb

soens
No but they can take your identity, create a bunch of new accounts, rack them up and all the bills come to you.
 
That's why the "real" me has no online identity. The best defense is a good offence, right? My entire online existence is made up using aliases, false impersonations, dead relatives, and stol...
 
never mind.

And that is exactly why I always use YOUR identity Craig! 

I'd be very careful with that. You have know idea who you're dealing with....
 
No, really. Today I may be CraigB. But who knows, tomorrow maybe CraigA or CraigC or CraigD or CraigE or...

jamesg1213
... 
If a company tells you your password has been compromised and you don't change it, you have only yourself to blame.

NOPE. Freeze that account forever. And that company will likely not get my business again!
 
One online vendor processed a sale 3 months later after the account was closed. BofA (Amazon) caught it and called, and I reported the transaction being closed.
 
The problem is that these companies won't go after the folks that charged an account fraudulently, and the only option left is to freexe the credit card, which has Amazon upset with me. Why? ... I told them! Until those folks get punished for their lack of control or insatiable need to rob people, I won't renew the Amazon card.
 
It's their loss and business. And I think that Amazon needs to make public the companies that are robbing people out in the open. That should stop them cold, because they would lose business left and right!
 
The solution lies in your hands. But you DO NOT KNOW how good hackers are, and why the federal government eventually hires many of these people. It's because they know code inside out and you don't. They know things about the internet and connectivity that most admins have no idea about.
 
And we keep thinking these folks are stupid?