Glitch Disrupts EBay's PayPal Service
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Repairs were underway Monday at PayPal as the widely used online payment service struggled to get customers back on track after several days of "intermittent" outages.
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PayPal said functions of the service that enable buyer and seller to exchange shipping information and to process payments immediately upon closing a sale were also affected by the outage.
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EBay's PayPal payment division will pay $3.5 million to consumers and $1.7 million to 28 states in settlements for two different actions regarding its notification of users regarding their rights, the company said Thursday.
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Online payment Web site PayPal.com was back in service late last night after a coding error disrupted service for four days.
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InfoWorld - A programming error in eBay's Skype communications software could give cybercriminals a new way to sneak their malicious software onto a victim's PC.
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Check out the most ridiculous way to lose a bundle.
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(InfoWorld) - Someone used an eBay discussion forum on Tuesday to post confidential information about eBay users along with what may be their credit card numbers. The incident, first reported by AuctionBytes.com, a technology news site that focuses on e-commerce, led the e-commerce giant to shut down the forum, which ironically is devoted to the discussion of security issues. Nichola Sharpe, an eBay spokeswoman, confirmed that on Tuesday morning someone the vendor describes as "a malicious fraudster" posted the names and contact information of 1,200 eBay members on the company's Trust & Safety discussion forum. "This information could have been obtained as part of an account takeover. Since this time, our Trust and Safety team has been proactively addressing this situation," she said. Along with members' information, the "fraudster" also posted what appear to be credit card numbers. However, if that's what they are, they don't match the ones eBay has on file for the members whose contact information was disclosed, Sharpe said. "We are in the process of proactively contacting members by phone, so that if the information is valid somehow -- regardless how this fraudster acquired the information -- these members can take the steps they need to take to protect themselves," Sharpe said. The "fraudster" didn't obtain the information by breaching eBay's security systems, so eBay thinks the culprit stole the information via methods like phishing, she said. The company has posted more information in an official blog post. The incident, which eBay continues to monitor, has been broadly reported and commented on by eBay users on this long thread. In its article, AuctionBytes reported being able to access the forum and view several posts before they were removed. The posts included fields labeled "Id verified" and "Store" along with a time-date stamp of the user registration, AuctionBytes reported, adding that it hasn't been able to verify the accuracy of the information viewed.
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Problems implementing a site redesign temporarily crippled some operations of Paypal the popular payment processing service. The performance problems, which began after a site update Thursday night, escalated
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OCTOBER 12, 2004  - A routine monthly code update performed Friday for the PayPal.com online payment Web site has caused havoc for users, many of whom have managed to access the site only intermittently since the changes were made
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Seemingly out of the blue, eBay have decided to ditch some Microsoft technology from their site. eBay will drop support for Microsoft&#39;s Passport and .
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Persistence pays off A week or more after it was brought to its attention, eBay has plugged a hole in its sign-on page that was being exploited by phishers.â¦
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Some users of PayPal are having trouble logging onto the site and are getting security warnings -- problems apparently tied to an SSL security certificate used by Omniture, which is gathering data for the online payment site.
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We were wrong, but is eBay wronger? Comment Reg Developer recently published a story about listings on eBay that point users to phishing sites. We thought we'd uncovered a new security issue on eBay, but it turns out we were wrong.â¦
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PayPal said late Tuesday that it has fixed a software glitch that locked some of its customers out of their accounts and crippled eBay users&#39; ability to complete online transactions.
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Will dirty dealers scare eBay users off?
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eBay will soon drop support for Microsoft's Passport service, which was originally intended to make the world's biggest software maker the gatekeeper of Web identities.
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Meg Whitman describes how eBay, Paypal are combating phony e-mails and Web sites that may ensnare unsuspecting users--and drive away customers.