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It has emerged that a hacker broke into the eBay server last week, although the online auction company claims that the situation was under control very quickly.

A spokeswoman for eBay said that the hacker was stopped before any lasting damage was done and she ensured members that no financial information was accessed.

Last month, a hacker known as Vladuz posted the names of over a 1,000 eBay members, along with invalid credit card numbers, on a discussion forum.

‘As we continue to lock down on the traditional ways that bad guys have attempted to exploit our system, it is only natural that they will look for new ways to get in,’ the eBay spokeswoman told PC Advisor.

‘It is an ongoing battle,’ she added.

There are suspicions that the latest hack is the responsibility of Vladuz, whose real identity unknown, although the fraudster is thought to live in Romania.

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Trojans have topped threat lists during the first six months of the year, according to a new report.

Security firm BitDefender Labs says that Trojans were the most popular form of malicious threat in the first half of 2007, along with mass mailers.

The Netsky worm also continued to keep its place in the top ten threat list, with all of the malware in the table accounting for two-thirds of total web viruses.

Viorel Canja, head of BitDefender Labs, called the shift from viruses to Trojans ‘an interesting trend’.

‘Although the popularity of mass mailers is slowly receding, variants are still present and pose a very real risk to computer systems used by consumers and small businesses,’ he added.

A recent report from information security services provider SecureWorks revealed that the number of hackers targeting banking institutions has soared by 81 per cent since 2006, with attackers using the Gozi, Prg and BBB Trojans in particular.

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