eBay faces up to online fraud: Admits Extreme Growth in Account Hijackings

[mandy]

The online auctioneer eBay has admitted an "extreme growth" in the number of personal accounts being hijacked by fraudsters.

Criminals are obtaining the secret passwords of eBay subscribers and using their sites to conduct bogus auctions for non-existent goods.

In a growing number of cases, would-be buyers on the UK's most used website are paying thousands of pounds to apparently reputable sellers after winning auctions on the site - only to find out they had been dealing with criminals.

full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4533154.stm

[iron_chick]

Well, duh.

Since they're willing to perjure themselves in order to protect a hacker in a criminal investigation,  I'm thinking eBay is the place to go if you want to commit internet crimes.  I imagine the criminals have figured this one out as well.

[xppman]

Yes and now the hacker criminals can make the hacked eBay account a "Business type"
with a click of a mouse. Adding MORE credibility to their scam.

Now Available: Register as a Business
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.php/topic,1744.from1134725146/topicseen.html#msg6145




NOT really funny to those who have been effected I imagine. :

[Kristijntje]

An article about the BBC story:
http://news.designtechnica.com/article9083.html

eBay users and employees discuss the BBC story:
http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?m...1002904165&forumID=107&x#1002904165

[iron_chick]

Thanks for posting that eBay board thread!  I had to go throw in my two cents. 

[bargainbloodhound]

The BBC changed the name of their article to: "EBay blames users for fraud" .eBay is now saying that all account hijackings are due to users clicking on links in phishing emails and that it is therefore an "off ebay issue"

Some quotes from eBay UK's head of Trust & Safety (the same brainless idiot who recently considered hiring a convicted eBay scammer):

EBay blames it account holders for not installing proper security on their home computers and for replying to so called phishing emails...

Describing it as an "off eBay issue", Mr Griffiths said "we have told people again and again".

"It is nothing really to do with us. We provide you with tools to help yourself."

When asked whether eBay's own computer could have been compromised, Mr Griffiths insisted that eBay's "systems are completely robust".

North Yorkshire Trading Standards says eBay can take up to two months to provide the names and addresses of suspects it is pursuing.

eBay's US systems are particularly robust: malware directly on item listing pages ON the ebay site, users able to see other users account info.  Very robust indeed...a hacker/criminal couldn't ask for a better Christmas present 

[xppman]

Merry Christmans to ALL hackers....
And to all. A good...    :blinkie:

Well what ever hackers do...

[iron_chick]

The BBC changed the name of their article to: "EBay blames users for fraud" .eBay is now saying that all account hijackings are due to users clicking on links in phishing emails and that it is therefore an "off ebay issue"

Lying Sack of Sh*t B*stards

[bargainbloodhound]

Lying Sack of Sh*t B*stards

:lol14n:

[iron_chick]

I lost count of how freakin' many times I had some T&S *helper* asking me if I'd replied to a suspicious email. 
HELLO.  If I'd GIVEN my hacker my password, there wouldn't have been 308 failed attempts to access my account.  There'd have been ONE successful attempt.  That concept seemed to evade them.

Of course, I am sure that mine is the ONLY account in ALL of eBay-dom that has EVER had someone attempt to hack it.   

Lying Sack of Sh*t B*stards