With all do respect, most true hackers dont steal identities. Those people who do generally have only slightly more knowledge about computers than the average person.

Without getting into a diatribe, hacking is the art of writing extremely clean and even "beautiful" code. HOWEVER, to your credit you did say hax0r, a derivative refering to people who like to break into computers for fun, and some of those who commit identity theft may indeed refer to themselves as such.

ALSO, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, you care more about your personal security then eBay or any other company does. Think your personal information is personal? Think again. As a past employee of a very large telecommunications company, I can say that huge amounts of information are stored by this and other similiar companies. This information includes address, phone numbers, other members of the family, SSN, anything you put down as information for any company you use, they keep this information, and a large amount of employees have access to it.

Sadly, personal information is no longer personal.