His info came from
http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?threadID=1000565444&start=0. I checked it out and it looks to be a legitimate scare. However, it's possible that this was more of an attack on ebay's credibility than on its users. Just a suspicion, but it is possible that somebody did, in fact, hack a bunch of ebay user names, and then post them with phoney cc info to give the appearance that ebay had been completely hacked, when only some account userid's had been taken. I'll read the forum some more to see if anybody can actually confirm that THEIR cc info was actually correctly listed in the hack.
Just a suspicion, but it is possible that somebody did, in fact, hack a bunch of ebay user names, and then post them with phoney cc info to give the appearance that ebay had been completely hacked, when only some account userid's had been taken.Maybe it was somebody PO'd with eBay's awesomely slow responses to legitimate user reports of various violations, who decided to make eBay management pay. Neat trick, arranging to have the whole world find out that it takes them an hour and a half to address an absolutely top priority problem that's sitting on their own systems. Of course, they probably didn't even receive the first complaint for at least half an hour, since anyone trying to report any problem of any kind has to wade through all kinds of windows and answer stupid questions before finally being presented with a "Submit" button.