Pro-Syrian hackers have produced evidence that they intercepted the sensitive communications of eBay security personnel as the employees responded to a recent hack of the company's UK websites. The incident underscores the lack of success some of the world's most powerful tech companies have withstanding everyday attacks.
An image posted over the weekend shows an e-mail purportedly sent by Paul Whitted, whose LinkedIn profile lists him as a senior manager at eBay overseeing "incident management and resolution of major site issues." The February 1 message addresses other eBay employees and raises the possibility that one or more of their computers—or at least one of their e-mail accounts—was compromised as they were discussing a hack last Saturday on eBay and PayPal websites.
It reads:
Just pointing out if someone has remote access to email via compromised laptop and is on this thread then they now have our conference info to listen into this incident. Might want to have folks call into the sec / ppcc and be in breakout where password is required to join.
Paul
Sent from my iPhone
An eBay spokesman confirmed that on Saturday hackers succeeded in causing some people visiting eBay and PayPal marketing webpages in the UK, France, and India to be redirected to fraudulent destinations. He said the attack was quickly detected and resolved. No customer data was accessed, and no customer accounts were affected. The spokesman declined to say if the published e-mail was authentic, but there's nothing obvious to indicate that it's a hoax.
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