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Simple Yet Effective eBay Bug Allowed Hackers to Steal Passwords

Posted on January 12, 2016 by Dissent

Swati Khandelwal writes that when MLT (@ret2libc on Twitter) responsibly notified eBay of a bug that would allow the theft of eBay users’ passwords via phishing, eBay ignored the problem – until the media came knocking for a statement.

Read more on The Hacker News and read MLT’s blog post about the eBay flaw.

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