Re: purchases from hacked account?
For what it's worth, I used to sell GoPro's and accessories, and in the few months I sold them, I got a LOT (out of 400+ sales, probably 20-25 "hacked" notifications similar to what you mentioned) automated emails like that. I think along with other reasons, it's an automatic reply by eb.y's bots to handling a chargeback or abuse of their claim system, but in a way that keeps it from reflecting on their overly automated system, so they don't take as much of the blame. Saying something was "accessed by unauthorized user" makes it sound like it's more out of their hands and deflects the blame. A lot of these situations involved user ID's from overseas or low feedback, and many times this happened soon after the shipping label was printed, where I assume the buyer thought it was in the mail and tried opening a claim right away, whether they could or not.
Anyway, I don't think that "unauthorized user" notification is only issued in instances where someone's account was hacked.
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