Personal information about eBay users has been posted on an internet forum, it has been reported. The technology site AuctionBytes.com as the first to notice the incident.
Included in the information is what appears to be users' credit card numbers and contact information. The data, which involves 1,200 eBay users, was actually posted on eBay's Trust & Safety discussion forum, a forum where security is the main focus.
Nichola Sharpe, a spokeswoman for the auction site, said: "This information could have been obtained as part of an account takeover. Since this time, our Trust and Safety team has been proactively addressing this situation." "We are in the process of proactively contacting members by phone." She added that the "credit card numbers" posted by the users' names do not match the card numbers eBay has on file.
Founded in 1995, eBay is based in San Jose and owns both Skype and PayPal.
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