Phishers hack eBay

Thursday, 4 August 2005, 11:58 AM EST

A flaw has been discovered on eBay's Web site that would have allowed fraudsters to successfully redirect the sign-on process to a phishing site.

Reported by Netcraft, the clever scam apparently started with fraudsters sending e-mails asking eBay users to update their accounts.

By John E. Dunn at PC World.

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