India eBay Arrest Sparks Anger, Concern
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Officials in India's technology industry expressed anger and concern over the jailing of the CEO of eBay's Indian subsidiary related to the online sale of a sex video. The U.S. State Department has also made inquiries about the case.
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A 4,000-year-old clay tablet authorities suspect was smuggled illegally from Iraq was pulled from eBay just minutes before the close of the online auction, authorities said Tuesday.
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The Delhi High Court on Tuesday granted bail to the head of eBay's Indian subsidiary, an American citizen who was jailed in connection with the online auction of a sex video involving teenagers.
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A court was expected to hear a plea for bail on Tuesday by the head of eBay&#39;s Indian subsidiary Baazee.com, who was jailed in connection with the online auction of a sex video involving teenagers.
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eBay said the head of Baazee.com, its wholly owned subsidiary in India, was arrested over a listing a user posted on its site. eBay issued a statement, saying the listing in question violated Baazzee.
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Police in India arrest the owner of a clinic near Delhi on suspicion of illegally aborting female foetuses.
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Duo arrested for 1.6b e-mails   Two computer programmers have been arrested on suspicion of sending out 1.6 billion spam e-mail messages, violating commerce laws, police said yesterday.
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An Indian court granted bail on Tuesday to the head of a popular online auction site who was arrested in connection with the sale of a video showing a girl and boy having oral sex.
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Auction site 'humiliated' and 'harassed' The row continues between eBay and Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.â¦
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- EBay (EBAY) said Tuesday that an executive with its India subsidiary has been released on bail. The manager of Baazee.
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(InfoWorld) - Questions abound overÂ the posting of confidential information from eBay members on one of the vendor's discussion forums, a sinister incident that has many of the online marketplace's buyers and sellers worried. Although eBay has provided some information about the brazen dump of member data that happened Tuesday morning, it's not known who the culprit is nor how and when this person obtained the information. Even more troubling: What has this "malicious fraudster," as eBay describes the person, already done with the names, addresses, member IDs, and possibly credit card numbers of at least 1,200 eBay buyers and sellers? Moreover, is this person still exploiting whatever hole, trick, or vulnerability led him to the data? Does he have data on just the 1,200 members listed or possibly on many more? "What makes this a big deal isn't just the amount of data compromised, but rather that this involves eBay," said computer security expert Mark Rasch, managing director of technology at FTI Consulting. As the world's largest online marketplace, eBay stores financial data on millions of users, and its platform is used to transact billions of dollars in sales. "Irrespective of the scope [of the data breach], the target makes it significant," Rasch said. This much is known: On Tuesday morning, someone posted confidential information on about 1,200 eBay members in the company's Trust & Safety discussion forum. Based on the initial reports of frantic users on this long thread, it appears that the "fraudster" posted data for about one hour until eBay shut the forum down. Hours later on Tuesday, an eBay spokeswoman confirmed the incident and said the vendor knew for a fact that the information wasn't obtained by breaching eBay's security systems, suggesting instead that the culprit stole the information from others via methods, such as phishing. However, many users have expressed skepticism in the forums over eBay's prompt declaration that its systems weren't hacked into. Rasch shares this skepticism. "I'd be reluctant to declare six hours after [such an incident] that my systems weren't breached unless I definitely knew what had happened or had already caught someone," he said. There can be many ways for someone to obtain this confidential data, including hacking a system and tricking individuals into disclosing the information via phishing, he said. It could also be a case of an inside job perpetrated by a disgruntled or corrupt employee at eBay or elsewhere with access to a database containing this data. "eBay has to thoroughly and comprehensively investigate this and keep people advised of what it finds and take corrective actions," Rasch said. This doesn't mean that eBay must provide hourly updates on the progress of its investigation, he said. However, eBay must at some point publicly close the loop on the incident and explain the scope of the damage and the causes. It's unclear if eBay intends to reveal more details about the breach. Beyond the spokeswoman's comments on Tuesday, the only other eBay statement on the matter is an official blog post made a few hours after the incident. By press time, eBay hadn't responded to several requests for comment on Wednesday. Jonathan Garriss, executive director of the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance, agrees that eBay must inform users about the issue. "eBay really needs to address this publicly at some point and say where the leak came from," said Garriss, also CEO of Gotham City Online, an apparel store on eBay that also has its own site. That way, buyers and sellers will feel that the issue was addressed and remedied. It's clear that the data thief, in addition to profiting from the compromised information, also wanted very much to embarrass eBay by using the vendor's discussion forum for security issues as the vehicle for the data disclosure. "It was very brazen and very public," Rasch said. On Tuesday, the eBay spokeswoman said that the credit card numbers disclosed didn't match with the ones eBay has on file for the affected members. This brings up another question: Even if the numbers don't match the members, does eBay know if those numbers are nonetheless valid? Once data is posted on a public Web site, it must be assumed that others with malicious intentions copied it. "The bottom line is that this data is in the hands of people who shouldn't have it," Rasch said.
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A spat that erupted this week between eBay and Google over dueling celebrations might presage more tension in one of the Internet's budding rivalries.
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Specifically, Avnish Bajaj, CEO of Baazee.com, owned by eBay, was arrested on Friday concerning the sale of video showing teenagers engaged in oral sex.
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Five-day auction prompted intense debate online; father who sold son's Christmas present on eBay speaks out.
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An Australian pleads guilty to fraud after posing as a dispossessed Nigerian to cheat people of their money. Also: eBay penalizes its own con men & hellip;. Microsoft's legal woes not quite over & hellip;. and more.
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EBay is moving to quell a wave of discontent among individuals and small merchants who sell on the leading online auction Web site.
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Officials at San Jose, Calif.-based eBay (Quote, Chart) expressed outrage after the head of its Indian operations was arrested over the weekend for a pornographic video file listed on its site.