8 EBay Sellers Admit to Phony Bids
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Eight eBay sellers were ordered to pay nearly &#36;90,000 in restitution and fines after admitting they bid up products online to inflate the prices.
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Two more defendants have pleaded guilty to charges of criminal copyright infringement for selling counterfeit software with a retail value of nearly US$6 million on eBay Inc., the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
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Online auction giant eBay has been slow to respond to concerns about pirated software being sold there, prompting the Software &amp; Information Industry Association (SIIA)&#160;to file nine lawsuits against eBay-based software sellers, an SIIA official said.
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Seen in wild for first time, malware cleans one victim out of $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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Eight eBay sellers were ordered to pay nearly $90,000 (euro 70,000) in restitution and fines after admitting they bid up products online to inflate the prices.
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After making a series of decisions that frustrated some merchants, eBay is wooing store owners.
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A sophisticated multistage attack by identity thieves appears to have significantly compromised eBay and perhaps PayPal as well.
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Backdoor man Letters Our story reporting the abundance of people who believe there is a secret backdoor in eBay's network appeared to touch a nerve.â¦
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Jail-time beckons Two Americans pleaded guilty today to selling $6m worth of counterfeit software over eBay.â¦
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eBay battles several days' worth of PayPal glitches.
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Merchants say sales arm of popular auction site hasn't drawn expected online crowds.
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PayPal, the online payment service owned by auction firm eBay, has been suffering intermittent glitches since Friday. Some users have been locked out of their accounts for long periods, and
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Someone used an eBay discussion forum to post confidential information about eBay users along with what may be their credit card numbers.
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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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Someone used an eBay discussion forum on Tuesday to post confidential information about eBay users along with what may be their credit card numbers.
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Online auction giant eBay has been implicated in piracy lawsuits. The Software & Information Industry Association is suing several eBay sellers as part of its campaign to stop auctioning of pirated software.
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A bug in Microsoft's registration process for Windows Live ID may have allowed scammers to register false e-mail addresses and use them to deceive other users.