p2pnet news | Security:- On Wednesday, the names and personal information of 1,200 eBay users suddenly appeared online and ironically, the data, which included credit card numbers, showed up on eBay’s Trust & Safety Discussion Board.

But it wasn’t down to a hack and eBay, “responded by immediately shutting down the discussion board,” says PC World, going on:

“In the hours that followed, eBay’s security team launched an investigation to determine whether the information on the 1,200 eBay users could be linked back to a hack of the eBay computer systems. Because some have questioned whether eBay was covering up a break-in, eBay is now undertaking to explain why it does not believe the incident is tied to any breach of its systems.

eBay’s servers weren’t breached, according to spokeswoman Catherine England, who also noted, “eBay has determined the credit card numbers posted yesterday with the 1,200 eBay user names are not identical with credit card information that eBay stores, says the story.

The credit card information, “was not associated with any financial information kept on file at eBay or PayPal,” she said.

Adds PC World:

“This could be a variety of phishing or identity-theft scam,” according to England, who also observed,”We’re often targeted by fraudsters and phishers.”

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Also See:
PC World – EBay Denies Security Breach Led to Data Posting, September 26, 2007

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