Data breach at eBay vendor Prosperpoint

[mandy]

A list of eBay sellers containing names, addresses, and user names and passwords was discovered online this week. On Tuesday, eBay users began buzzing about the list in a thread entitled, "Is eBay like the Titanic" on the eBay Trust & Safety board, with someone including a link to the list...

When contacted by AuctionBytes, Prosperpoint founder and CEO Carson Kelly said the data came from a file that was erroneously put on the company's pages and dated back to 1999 or 2000. "We switched our technology backbone. It was a copy of a file used to move data from one to another."...

However, Kelly was unaware that a list - with thousands of  Prosperpoint customer records - was still active on a page on his site, and removed it within moments of being told about it by AuctionBytes on Friday evening. That list contained more recent account data, Kelly said. "Our security is good. This fell through the cracks." ...

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