1200+ eBay accounts hacked! (Updated)
September 28th, 2007 by Annkur
With great power comes great responsibility and with great success comes greater enemies. Reports are coming that 1200+ eBay accounts were recently compromised by an unidentified hacker, who posted confidential information from these id’s on the eBay Trust and Safety (TnS) forums.
It is still unconfirmed whether the leak was due to a security breach in the eBay system or a mega social engineering operation (as we believe).
While the original posts and the YouTube video showing the list of names have been removed from the Web, an eBay member has secured several account names and posted them on a personal web site so that people can easily check to see if their account was one of the original 1,200 (Can’t be sure if even that will be online for long).
Most of the usernames that we cross checked were from eBay US. Howeverits unconfirmed at the moment if any eBay.in accounts are involved inthe incident.
Update:
eBay has clarified that the data leak was not due to any security breach and eBay servers were not hacked. The data theft is most like to be a result of an email phishing scam. ReadTags: ebay ecommerce hacking hacked
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