TikToker urges Etsy sellers to delete their accounts after horror hacking story TikTok: marisadabirdieA TikToker urged fellow Etsy sellers and buyers to delete their accounts, after sharing a security horror story in a viral video. Etsy seller Marisa, who posts under the handle marisadabirdie, took to TikTok to inform others that the site\u2019s weak security allowed a known hacker to take control of her account. In a viral video that\u2019s garnered 350,000 views, Marisa says: \u201cIf you\u2019re seeing this please delete your Etsy account, whether you\u2019re a buyer or a seller their security is awful. \u201cYou are currently at risk of being impersonated, having your account hacked, and not being able to recover it.\u201d She shares that she had a small Etsy business selling t-shirts, but one day, someone hacked her account using her old email address, which allowed the hacker to switch the bank account associated with the Etsy store to their own. After contacting Etsy, Marisa was able to get into her account, and she changed her password to a \u201cvery strong\u201d one. She even enabled two-factor authentication, so that any new log-ins would have to ping a secondary device that only Marisa would have access to. However, the hacker was somehow quickly able to regain access to her account. \u201cThis has been happening for five days now,\u201d Marisa states. She claims that when contacting Etsy, the company will respond after 24 hours, and eventually, give the account back to the hacker for unknown reasons. Etsy\u2019s response to seller getting her account hacked The TikToker says she received an automatic notification from Etsy that the email address for her account has been changed. In the email, there\u2019s a blurb informing her that if she didn\u2019t approve this change, she should go to a particular link. But according to Marisa, the URL is just \u201cplain text.\u201d Furthermore, she says that Etsy will not let her delete the account until 180 days have elapsed, as that is the return period for purchases from her store. The hacker was able to access the account again using an email address that had Marisa\u2019s \u201cfull legal name,\u201d which they got via her Etsy account. \u201cBut worse than this hacker is Etsy,\u201d she concludes. \u201cI don\u2019t know if they have a friend inside, but Etsy continues to give my account back to a known hacker, putting me at risk, my identity, my customers. So if you have an Etsy account, delete it, because they\u2019re very susceptible to security breaches.\u201d In a follow-up video, she noted that two-factor authentication is poor, as Etsy was able to bypass their program to let her back into her account. The frustrated TikToker also believes that there\u2019s \u201csomeone from Etsy\u2019s team who is helping this hacker.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TikToker urges Etsy sellers to delete their accounts after horror hacking story TikTok: marisadabirdieA TikToker urged fellow Etsy sellers and buyers to delete their accounts, after sharing a security horror story in a viral video. Etsy seller Marisa, who posts under the handle marisadabirdie, took to TikTok to inform others that the site\u2019s weak security […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}