Anyone had the unpleasant experience of being hacked in some way or another? I can now say I have and I really did not find it enjoyable at all.

Apparently even with my always being careful to fully log out of things if I use the PC at the library and my changing passwords a couple times a year and other little things I do...were just not enough.

I went to my yahoo mailbox today and had some messages that were questions on items in my ebay store. Well looking at the headers I blew them off as spam cause they were regarding an Apple notebook PC I was selling. Since I have never even used a Mac much less have one to sell I just knew they were not valid emails.

After weeding through my yahoo mail, I then logged into my ebay account to check my listings and auctions as I normally do and there in my Ebay message box are the same messages so they were really for me (well not for ME but valid Emails). At that the Huge Red flag was waving. Seeing how I had several folks asking about the 'pc I was selling' I went to my listings and went through my entire store item by item. Sure enough inbetween my regular listings was one for an Apple Macbook Pro. I opened the listing and it was for not 1 but 6 notebook PCs and all they wanted PER machine was $1,000. In the listing it states in big letters to Email prior to purchasing and to only use the email in the listing since there was a problem with the regular email. I guess I am just LUCKY that there were a couple people that did not do as the listing asked or I may not have even noticed it until I had sellers fees for computers I never had to sell in the first place.

SO I spent the last close to an hour going into each of my various accounts with passwords and changing them ALL as well as any of my hint questions. I then was on the live chat with ebay to make sure the listing was properly removed and noted that it was not mine and so on. What a hassle. And what is worst I still can not figure out how it happened. I always thought I was so careful for fear of things exactly like this happening.

At least it was caught BEFORE I had to argue with Ebay about Not paying sellers fees on 6 computers at $1,000 a pop.

Anyone else out there have to deal with stuff like this or have a similar experience? Or have preventative suggestions that could help me as well as anyone else to stop in and read?