“The username that you use to register and activate Office is one that they provide to you in their email when you buy the license on eBay,” wrote the reader who alerted me about this dodgy transaction. More importantly, the buyer can’t change the email address associated with the license, which means whoever owns that address can likely still assume control over any licenses tied to it. This merchant appears to be reselling access to existing Microsoft Office accounts, because in order to use this purchase the buyer must log in to Microsoft’s site using someone else’s username and password! Let’s call this Red Flag #2. After you change your password, log on to the official website to start downloading and installing Office365! Once you forget your password, you will lose Office365!ģ. Be sure to remember the modified new password. Log in with the original password and the official website will ask you to change your password!Ģ. Very important! Office365 is a subscription product and does not require any KEY activation. Let’s call this Red Flag #1, as a legitimately purchased license of Microsoft Office 2016 is still going to cost between $70 and $100. Nevertheless, almost 350 other people had made the same purchase from this seller over the past year, according to eBay, and there appear to be many auctioneers just like this one.Īfter purchasing the item, the buyer said he received the following explanatory (exclamatory?) email from the seller - “ Newhotsale68” from Vietnam: Last week, KrebsOnSecurity heard from a reader who’d just purchased a copy of Microsoft Office 2016 Professional Plus from a seller on eBay for less than $4.
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But purchasing steeply discounted licenses for cloud-based subscription products like recent versions of Microsoft Office can be an extremely risky transaction, mainly because you may not have full control over who has access to your data.
Buying heavily discounted, popular software from second-hand sources online has always been something of an iffy security proposition.
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