Russian Web site offered eBay account info for $5 - shut down
Published March 26th, 2006
Auction News
EBay Inc. helped to shut down a Russian Web site this week that was offering to sell stolen customer account information for as little as US$5 each.
Armed with an eBay customer’s login and password, a fraudster could post items for sale, collect payments and then never deliver the goods. The site was also offering to sell a handful of PayPal accounts.
Security vendor Sunbelt Software detected the site Tuesday and reported it to eBay, which worked with the local ISP (Internet service provider) to have it taken offline, an eBay spokeswoman confirmed. She couldn’t say how many user accounts were offered for sale or whether any customers’ accounts had been misused.
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