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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Joining Microsoft,
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Wed Feb 5 14:24:59 2014
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 10:56:22 -0800
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Joining Microsoft, eBay's sensitive e-mail is intercepted by hackers
http://j.mp/1ir1qeQ (Ars Technica)
An eBay spokesman confirmed that on Saturday hackers succeeded in
causing some people visiting eBay and PayPal marketing webpages in the
UK, France, and India to be redirected to fraudulent destinations. He
said the attack was quickly detected and resolved. No customer data
was accessed, and no customer accounts were affected. The spokesman
declined to say if the published e-mail was authentic, but there's
nothing obvious to indicate that it's a hoax. A security professional
who trains people how to respond to security incidents just like the
one that hit eBay and PayPal told Ars that the e-mail looks real to
him. Based on the contents, he said it appears the e-mail account of
at least one of the people responding to last weekend's attacks was
compromised. That would have allowed the hackers not only to redirect
some eBay and PayPal Web visitors but to also eavesdrop on incident
responders as they tried to block the attack.
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