Phileas Fogg:
Whilst eBay may own PayPal are eBay admitting that eBay in themselves hold financial and credit/debit card information?
Yes, indeed. If you're a seller who isn't a "casual seller", or an eBay store owner, eBay require you to put on record, account or CC details to enable them to take funds from that account or CC when you owe them money for sales.
The part that makes me angry is that eBay is always intent on improving returns to eBay - but they care so little about their clients private and important details, that they don't even encrypt your name, address, email, birthdate, and phone number.
CC companies encrypt all your private information, and they offer fraud protection as well.
eBay offer you nothing.
The media state that eBay is emailing clients advising them to change their password. Nothing of the kind has happened - there's only a message on the home page of eBay advising you to change your password.
These stolen details are gold for scammers, and they now have 145,000,000 users details to on-sell to every scammer on Earth.
I trust that someone starts a class-action against eBay for failure to take basic precautions with vital personal information.
There's a message doing the rounds that someone is offering all these eBay details for sale, already.
EBay users still at risk following cyber attack, even if they changed passwords
eBay seller details for sale. Payment in BitCoins -
http://pastebin.com/vmvjGw3N