It sounds like some people were trying to create some irony in this situation.  For about an hour, some people posted somewhere in the vicinity of 1,200 eBay identities, which included things like phone numbers, mailing addresses and credit card information in an anti-fraud forum.  Chances are the way these people were able to do this was by creating phishing sites and not actually breaching eBay’s security (at least, that is what is said in the article).  I’m not sure if these people were trying to point out security flaws or just to show off, but whatever it was, it sure got attention.

Hackers brazenly posted on Tuesday sensitive information including home addresses and phone numbers for 1,200 eBay users to an official online forum dedicated to fraud prevention on the auction site.

The information — which also included user names and email, and possibly their credit card numbers and three-digit CVV2 numbers — was visible for more than an hour to anyone visiting the forum. The miscreants appeared to have created a script that caused each user to log in and post information associated with the person who owned the account. The script spit out about 15 posts per minute, starting around 5:45 a.m. California time.[more]

Tags: Identity Theft