Users of free sniping service Goofbay have received an erroneous email from eBay stating that their account has been compromised and items listed on their account.

Goofbay has stated in an email to users that accounts were not compromised, and the issue has affected many other sniping services. The message was a generic eBay email triggered by an internal security system, Goofbay claim, and eBay are planning to tell users who received the erroneous email that their accounts were not compromised/hijacked.