eBay Pushes Back on Etsy Hack Claims

After Etsy implied that the criminals who had hacked eBay's database were behind a recent increase in spam being sent through its messaging system, eBay pushed back. In an obvious reference to the eBay security hack, Etsy issued a warning to users that spammers were logging into some member accounts, "a direct result of user names and passwords stolen in other attacks." Etsy surmised that the account takeovers were cases where its members had used the same user names and passwords across multiple sites.