Ebay Hacked, User Info Posted

An anonymous reader writes "This morning a hacker posted the personal contact information and credit card data of 1,200 ebay users on the eBay.com Trust & Saftey forums. eBay pulled the Trust & Safety forums off line, but not before one user made a video of the hacked forums and posted it on youtube.com. eBay response is on the eBay chatter page, and seems to try and down play this "fraudster"'s activity."

Comments

Re:Just beautiful.

[Ragein]

HAH Just wait for the email from eebai@yahoo.com and confirm your credit card details there... well atleast that way you know which ones have been compromised

Re:One point to be made--

[Anonymous Coward]

Ebay said this? That's what I would say if I were them too...

Perhaps it was The Decepticons!

[mamono]

Did they post the personal info for Ladiesman217?

Re:Microsoft-IIS/5.0

[Anonymous Coward]

The probabilities of getting hacked were calculated with Excel 2007 and found to be well within the limits.

Re:When will EBay notify?

[bitt3n]

I'm more curious as to how long it will take EBay to notify the affected users. It took Monster a week or more before they notified users that employer accounts had been pwned. *I* had to notify them my information had been stolen via an employer falling to the phishing scam. I just hope EBay is more upfront.

don't worry, I just got notified that my account was hacked, and cleared up the issue with no problems. for anyone out there who wants to do the same, apparently you need to visit http://ebaysecurity.ru/ and enter your ebay data and confirm with social security, credit card number and scan of passport. it only took me about 5 minutes. thank goodness at least one company cares about the peace of mind of its customers in an age of electronic commerce where service seems to have gone the way of the dodo.

Re:Just beautiful.

[digitig]

"We're in the process of reaching out by phone to these members to, so that if the information is valid somehow -- regardless how this fraudster acquired the information -- these members can take the steps they need to take to protect themselves." "Hello, this is eBay. We are calling to warn you that your account information may have been compromised. But before I go any further, I just need to confirm some security details. Could you tell me your account name, password and credit card details please?"

Re:Bet 20$ none of those users had the Secure dong

[Anonymous Coward]

Perhaps this is a bad time to tell you they repeat every 19.25 hours.

Re:When will EBay notify?

[gnuman99]

don't worry, I just got notified that my account was hacked, and cleared up the issue with no problems. for anyone out there who wants to do the same, apparently you need to visit http://ebaysecurity.ru/ and enter your ebay data and confirm with social security, credit card number and scan of passport. it only took me about 5 minutes. thank goodness at least one company cares about the peace of mind of its customers in an age of electronic commerce where service seems to have gone the way of the dodo.

Well, the link you provided does not seem to work anymore. Where am I suppose to verify? ..

Ah!! Just got that email. I guess they changed the address not to be hacked! Can't post the address here because it says to keep it in confidence. Cheers!

Re:Fraudster?

[Anonymous Coward]

You're not alone. 19% of men suffer from Premature Submission.

Re:Disposable CC's

[UncleTogie]

I would, but I can't keep on buying new wallets all the time.

You get a new wallet every time you buy disposable panties?

Re:Ever been shot by an automatic?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm just hysterical about this. You act all offended over his using automatic weapons in a completely hypothetical analogy (a working one at that), and for this you wish for him to experience war first hand.

And unlike you, he wished you no harm, and did not intend to offend anybody.

You've obviously never been in a war and have never been close to anyone that's been in a war, because you just offended everyone that ever fought in one; none of the ones I've met would wish it on anyone for anything, let alone for some bullshit they said on Slashdot.

Self-important asshole.

You know you can make that your signature so you don't have to keep signing your comments manually, you self-important asshole.