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Ebay now says that the hacking took place about 2 months ago. The hackers have our name, our date of birth, our address, our e-mail address, our phone number and an encrypted (although probably no longer) password. This is fertile information for identity theft, so be extra cautious over the next few months with regard to any unusual activity. If you don't intend to apply for any credit you might want to put a "freeze" on your various credit reporting accounts, which you can do for no charge; however if you apply for credit while the freeze is in place you will not get it; however if the bad guys try and create an identity with the information it will go a long way towards protecting you.

In addition, if you used that password for your bank account, brokerage account, Paypal account or anything else sensitive financially, be sure to change THOSE passwords as the hackers have sufficient information to glue the pieces of your life together and will try and use those passwords on the most valuable potential sites.