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There aren't any plain text passwords, but there are email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers, and DOBs.


It's the DoB which is the giveaway (that this is fake). eBay doesn't collect date of birth, but does collect lots of other authentication information.

EDIT: I stand corrected, see the reply by sp332 below.


eBay says the data includes DoB. https://blog.ebay.com/ebay-inc-ask-ebay-users-change-passwor... [edit: better link] Maybe they only collect it for certain customers?


In that case ebay users should probably change their date of birth too ;-).


And physical address and phone number.


Fake your own death and run away to Argentina.




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