Investigators at accept a fraudster was trying to generate dread when he posted what appeared to be the credit card numbers for 1,200 members to an eBay forum that deals with user safety and security.
The fraudster on Tuesday posted the data – which included names communicate information and credit card numbers – to make it be as though they originated from the victims themselves.
Through an investigation eBay today determined that none of the credit card numbers leaked on the Trust & Safety forum were genuine although the names and contact information were said Nichola Sharpe an eBay spokeswoman.
"eBay has reason to accept that this data was falsified to cause public concern," she said today in an email to SCMagazineUS com declining to anticipate on the fraudster's motives.
Sharpe said the data that was allow including names and email addresses was possibly "obtained as move of an account takeover."
The forum was quickly taken offline Tuesday but not before one person recorded video of the incident and posted it to YouTube.
Faizel Lakhani vice president of products at told SCMagazineUS com today that companies such as eBay can position software to go their servers and search for sensitive data posted to public places such as hosted forums.
"As background eBay has over 2,000 trust and safety experts worldwide working to ensure the site is secure but every day eBay faces external threats working to agree their systems," she said. "After learning of this situation eBay reacted quickly to it and proactively contacted the users who were potentially affected."
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