Sep 26 2007

1,200 eBay Users had their Private Account Details Exposed to the Public

Posted by: Sierra Monica B. in News



1,200 eBay Users had their Private Account Details Exposed to the Public

1,200 eBay Users had their Private Account Details Exposed to the PublicHow brazen can you be to expose to the large public, personal information of 1,200 people, all being eBay members?

Among the information which appeared for approximately an hour on an official forum dedicated to online fraud prevention, were home addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, CVV2 numbers, usernames and e-mail addresses.
Anyone who was visiting the forum in that short period of time had seen the private data.

A script made so that users to log in and post information associated with the person who owned the account, the script spitting out 15 posts per minute.

To exculpate eBay, one of their spokeswomen declared that all this is actually hackers’ takeovers of accounts and not a security breach.
eBay started to take measures immediately.

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