eBay accused of privacy breach
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ICO to investigate The Information Commissioners Office (ICO) is to investigate eBay after Privacy International lodged an official complaint about the company's data retention practices.â¦
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Technical problems for online payment service PayPal are hampering e-commerce on the eBay online marketplace. The payment service, which is owned by eBay, has been experiencing problems since last Friday when
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Google responds to attacks on its privacy record.
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Part deux An online choccy emporium has defended its response to a privacy glitch that left customer details unwrapped and exposed to the world.â¦
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A congressional inquiry into online data brokers has raised concerns that federal and local law enforcement may be skirting privacy laws to obtain calling records
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Retailer Sears, Roebuck & Co has been hit with a lawsuit seeking class-action status that alleges a company Web site compromises customers' private information.
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Online finance service PayPal, used by mainly people on eBay, introduces a security token to tackle fraud.
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'Trust and safety' board in emergency shutdown Hackers brazenly posted sensitive information including home addresses and phone numbers for 1,200 eBay users to an official online forum dedicated to fraud prevention on the auction site.â¦
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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.
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Martha Reeves, former lead singer of Martha Reeves &amp; the Vandellas, says eBay left her open to identity theft by posting a contract on its Web site that showed her Social Security number and signature.
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Privacy concerns stemming from online shopping rose in 2007, a new study finds, as the loss or theft of credit card information and other personal data soared to unprecedented levels.
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It's new and improved. And it just nabbed $8,600. Miscreants have unleashed a new strain of a sophisticated Trojan that targets eBay users by feeding them spoofed web pages containing fraudulent information about high-ticket purchases, The Register has learned. It has already contributed to an $8,600 loss by one eBay member.â¦
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Wild and dynamic eBay users are being targeted by an advanced Trojan that attempts to redirect traffic so it can silently bid on a car from the auction site's car site, Symantec is warning. It is the latest security headache for eBay, which has faced an onslaught of complaints from some users who say fraud on the site has increased to unacceptable levels over the past few months.â¦
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Software that promises users increased privacy while surfing the web has been accused of including adware.
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Hawking items on eBay can open you to a world of people curious about your stuff, including, according to St. Mary's County court records filed this week, the guy from whom you stole your stuff.
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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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Motown singer Martha Reeves says a posting on internet auction site eBay has left her open to identity theft.