One of the worse things that could happen to any business is to have their companies database accessed by an outsider of the company, usually a hacker. It seems ebay has been plagued by a certain individual who goes by the name of 'Vladuz.' It is unknown if this hacker is one or many who each call them self as this Vladuz hacker. There are many instances in the articled listed below of this hacker listening in on conversations held by officers and CEO's of eBay. This Vladuz over the years has maintained use of eBay's super account functions in an attempt of hurting the company and its users for financial gain. There were many instances where this user would sell software that its primary use was to be used to hack into eBay's infrastructure. Using the database that is accessed by eBay employees Vladuz has gained insight on super user controls and other tools to access user information and personal data and leaving them exposed for the general public and other hackers to use. Many of eBay's employees and users are concerned, if so many of eBay's super user functions are so easily accessed by an outside party then long has this been going on? Are the users confidential information safe? As any who have signed up for eBay would be aware, you require a credit card to sign up and that means your financial data is at this Vladuz's grasp. Concerned? Yes I would be, and so should anyone else who is a registered member of eBay. How and when eBay arranges to have these security loop holes corrected throughout their database should be the next question floating around. Despite that, how long will it take for this hacker(s) take before they reveal a new method for entering eBay's database. The questions are out there and obviously eBay needs to own up and have these concerns, from their millions of users who trade and sell items every day for millions of dollars, answered.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/oct/25/ebay.hacking
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