OT - Ebay hacked - user IDs and credit card numbers posted

[adigal]

I know this is seriously OT, and if I am breaking site rules, I will take it down, but I didn't hear a thing about this on the MSM. This morning, on their Trust and Safety Board, (ah, the irony!) a hacker starting posting ebay user names and credit card numbers. I can't get a clear idea of whether or not the credit card numbers were real.

Ebay has not made any official announcements about this that I can find. THey did take the thread down about an hour after some users notified them that this was occurring. What some people who called were told was that the credit card numbers were not real.

So just to keep your heads up - if you use ebay, keep an eye on your accounts.

Some threads on this:

http://forums.ebay.com/db1/forum.jspa?forumID=4

and another:

http://forums.ebay.com/db1/forum.jspa?forumID=32

[Lone_Star_Dem]

1. Not good.

I don't use Ebay, but this is important for those who do.

Thanks for posting.

[adigal]

2. You're welcome - I have to go out to a school Open House

but I wanted to post this if allowed.

[Nickster]

3. Here's someone's attempt to make a list of the user ids involved.

tinyurl dot com slash 35n4tu

[HughMoran]

7. Well, I'm not on that list anyway

A bit nerve wracking thinking about it though.

[Bluerthanblue]

4. here is a link to the only article I could

find on it-

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/392758/apparent_ebay_hacker_posts_credit_card.html

doesn't sound too great :(

[adigal]

6. Thanks for coming up with this n/t

[Raine]

5. THANKS for the info. nt

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. Thanks for posting this. No word or warning from Ebay to its customers

[Bombero1956]

9. does this apply

if you use Paypal?

[adigal]

10. I don't know - there is no info by ebay yet

put out there.