Ebay 3rd Party Access To Your Account? Check Your Account Now!

9 Responses

1. Anonimus

   November 22nd, 2006 at 2:49 pm

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   Wow, i had like 7 of these.
   Can you explain why there are there?

   I dont remember allowing anything on my account.
   This is really scary stuff!

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   November 22nd, 2006 at 3:54 pm

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3. Bill Canfield

   November 23rd, 2006 at 12:07 am

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   I just finished a “Live Chat” session with an eBay rep. and they claimed that the “3rd party authorizations” are usually granted access to your account by “tricking” the end user, i.e. the eBay community, into entering their account information onto a “fake” login screen. According to the rep., the login screen looks almost identical to the standard eBay login. That’s all the information that I could get from the guy. Phishing’s a bitch!

4. Jerry Kindall

   November 23rd, 2006 at 12:23 am

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   I had a couple; from Googling around, they MIGHT be payment processors used by eBay sellers I’ve bought from. The third-party authorization prefs panel doesn’t say WHAT they are authorized to do; that would be very nice.

5. SteveP

   November 24th, 2006 at 1:45 pm

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   Although they might come from phishing sites, I can say that is not the only way. I can guarantee that I’ve never fallen victim to a phishing site. I’ve never clicked through on any email to get to eBay, and yet I had one of those 3rd party authorizations on my account as well.

6. JT

   November 30th, 2006 at 11:11 pm

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   eBay’s third parties are required to use tokens to perform actions having to do with your eBay account, not login information, and you grant them access from within your eBay account. Of course, if someone has phished your login, then they act as if they are you. The third-party companies you are mentioning in your list are Certified Solutions Providers with eBay (see http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?SolutionsDirectory&page=results&subgroup=1). They are legitimate companies, and you have to sign up for their services for them to require the token to access your account. Some of these providers may have tools like galleries and counters that require this access to your account.

7. Steve

   December 11th, 2006 at 1:05 pm

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   Some of them are 100% legit:

   If you use Arndale counters, then you wil lhave “Arndale” and “Arndale Auto-Attach” (the latter will make sure new listings have an Arndale counter on it) - you would have authorised them when you signed up for their services.

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8. Paul

   July 9th, 2008 at 1:26 am

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   I have one on my account and I’m livid that ebay allow it. worse still I am unable to delete it, added to that I have had a lond debate with ebay only to find they refuse to assist..! basically they dont know what to do to help, they started blaming my firewalls.. I’m still mid email debate with them but they are entrenching.. I think this should hit the media..

9. James

   May 4th, 2009 at 11:44 am

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   Evidently someone used my account to send out emails…..Here is my conversation with the security guy on Ebay.

   I asked him for the ip address and what action will they take against the offender and this is what he said

   “10:54:54 AM AgentPreston C.
   Security precautions prevent me from discussing our proprietary tools and investigation procedures that led us to this action.

   10:54:59 AM AgentPreston C.
   I am sorry, we cannot disclose that.”

   He was telling me that I shouldnt be worried that my address and personal information was accessed as my address is available on the internet anyway from some websites. Unbelieveable!!! I told him that my address might be available, and I am well aware of that but my ebay id related to my address is not available anywhere else but through Ebay.

   I said, this is a security hole with Ebay.

   This is what he said

   “11:04:35 AM AgentPreston C.
   This is not a security hoe in the company. I am saying that many private companies sell the contact information of any one world wide.
   11:04:52 AM AgentPreston C.
   One need not need to take over your eBay account for that.”

   This is how Ebay’ justifies personal information being accessed by third parties…

   11:00:56 AM AgentPreston C.
   We do keep our site most secured, however sometimes third parties do invade some accounts but this is very rare on eBay.
   They do have specific tools for that about which even we are not aware.

   Shows how resonsible this company is with personal information.