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Posted By: Corey R. Shanus

My eBay account too was recently compromised. Somebody accessed it and was running literally several hundred auctions selling high-priced items such as farm equipment and speed boats. EBay got wind of it, cancelled all the auctions and credited my account for all accrued fees. When I had a computer specialist come to my home and office to check my computers for viruses (I couldn't think how else somebody could have gotten my account info as I am very careful about not disclosing it or being duped by fake emails), this specialist told me he had heard that eBay's system had been compromised and that could very well have been the way my account info got into the wrong hands. Needless to say he did not find any viruses on any of my computers, so at this point I feel it was through someone hacking eBay's system that confidential info got disclosed.