I guess this would be a good place to put this link:

The Day ebaY Died! Watch it!


For those of you whom may not have seen the Grandaddy of all the Vladuz hack attacks, live as it happened. Another EPIC Meg fail!

There are more links to the 3 'takes' from that morning, all rendered now in crystal clear high-quality, and more verrrry revealing screencaps of various forums from ebay and elsewhere.

Even the one where someone was stating that an ebay higher-up knew exactly who was hacking them,, and that the police were on their way to the hacker's house that morning to arrest him. roflololololololololol!!!


Fact: ebaY has gone downhill steadily since then. They never lived that down, regardless of whatever cover-up and lies they tried.

No way of knowing how many people quit using ebay/PP altogether due to that & related contemporary events,  but I would bet it was substantial.