Well I tried to alert consumers via the comments area of a couple youtube videos, but for some odd reason some of them were marked as spam within 5 minutes or so of being posted!

 Does ebay and Paypal have someone hovering over the youtube videos ready to wrongfully mark any unflattering comments as spam? This is NOT the first time that sort of thing has happened.
JMO, I doubt that is really the thing to do.
Hopefully this info will help consumers to be more aware of the many dangers of using ebay and PayPal.
  This is hardly spam. Only more PROOF that ebay and Paypal are not safe, and it appears someone does not want folks to know this happened, hence attempting to hide legitimate consumer awareness oriented comments from  places where it would be looked for and found.

Another Paypal Data Leak Reported: Taken by Employee

If you are using or considering using PayPal, you should take note of this.

Here we have a report of a PayPal employee apparently absconding with data and sending 'spam' to those on a list.

The thread is still active as of this moment.
"Anyone Else Get an Email from a former PayPal Employee?"
http://tinyurl.com/2at6ck
on the Stores board at ebay community forums

Here are screencaptures of that thread thus far for when it becomes deleted:
http://tinyurl.com/22mohc
http://tinyurl.com/27aul9

And a little look at some of Paypal's other less than stellar performances with regards to data leaks and responsible disclosure:
" Data leak puts PayPal users at phishing risk"
http://tinyurl.com/27nmts

"Responsible Disclosure? - Paypal vulnerable for two years"
http://tinyurl.com/2fxdls

"PayPal data stealing trojan and IcePack malware installer Trojan PayRob.A"
http://tinyurl.com/227vsw

"EBay Sicherheitsleck identifies:
Data fetch ran over PayPal"
http://tinyurl.com/yvpbzp

And of course, the huge scandal that occurred surrounding the
"Gephishte Accounts die eBay nicht interessieren" situation:
http://tinyurl.com/29kcxr

As seen in the other Cappnonymous consumer awareness videos:
"Paypal Data Leaks! ebay Compromised Accounts Consumer Alert!"
http://tinyurl.com/28o2xb
&
"ebaY & PayPal Data Leaks The "LIST" Returns to Strike Again!"
http://tinyurl.com/242ste
where we see the proof that there were massive data leaks and Paypal nor ebay did NOT CARE!

UPDATE: 03-25-2008

More reports of PayPal security breach by employee theft here in post #22 of the thread
"Security breach with pay pal debit cards, anyone get this"

Reduced size full page screencapture:
http://tinyurl.com/3c483h

http://budmalcolm.bravejournal.com/entry/25851

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