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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."
I'm betting that this is the other half of the story: Last night I was looking through microphones in the Pro Audio category and there was an ad with a nude chick at the top (the slot you pay extra to get you item posted to). When I clicked on the ad the FF eBay toolbar popped a warning that I was beign redirected to a fake eBay site to log in. I'm betting 1200 people didn't have the toolbar towarn them.
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
Anyone who's ever submitted such "well-intended" reports, sometimes they get a "thank you" and the problems get fixed, but more often there is resistance and hostility. Now this is pure speculation, devil's advocate if you will, but what if the hacker had already tried to contact eBay and was rebuffed, or perhaps he (or his client) was the victim of fraud as a result of eBay's poor security and this was retaliation.
Sometimes, when someone doesn't listen to your kind advice, you have to make them listen.
-Billco, Fnarg.com