Phishing or hacking?
Hackers have mounted an electronic attack against Fairfax’s newly-acquired $700 million internet auction site, Trade Me.
Trade Me executives have posted a security warning to clients that emails are circulating, purporting to be from Trade Me, asking them to confirm their log-on details.
“It directs you to a site that looks like Trade Me and asks you to log in,” Trade Me said.
“This is not from Trade Me.
” If you have already responded to the email please change your password immediately.”
Internet observers said the emails appeared to be a “phishing” campaign, in which people received a false message saying: “We recently noticed one or more attempts to log in to your Trade Me account … if you did not initiate the log ins, please visit Trade Me as soon as possible to check-up your account information”