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Now, Cignetti has Indiana 15-0 and playing for a national championship, and Byington has Vanderbilt 15-0 and off to their second-best start in school history.
🚨Probstein BUSTED?!🚨
Rick Probstein spent 21 years on eBay, selling nearly $1 billion worth of cards. Last month, he took the leap & launched his own auction platform: Snype.
On Monday, as the first auctions closed, everything fell apart.
"We're experiencing a system-wide technical issue due to high volume," the official statement read.
But that wasn't the real story.
A Pokemon forum user discovered something far worse: Snype's entire backend database was exposed to the open web. No authentication required.
Anyone with basic technical knowledge could access:
Full bidder & consignor information Names, emails, addresses Birthdates & payment information Complete bid histories
All of it. Just sitting there.
But the security breach wasn't even the worst part. The exposed database revealed something damning: multiple accounts shared addresses linked to Probstein, his wife, & known scammer Kevin Burge.
One account placed 11,277 bids. The username? "Hunny Bunny." The email address? Rick Probstein's.
In total, 1,331 auctions were allegedly impacted. Total bids placed across them: 29,000, totaling $1.28M in bids. 96 auction “wins” are attributed to the flagged accounts.
Every suspicious account was verified as a "Super Bidder"—a status requiring eBay feedback and industry references.
But the eBay usernames provided? They don't exist. The industry references appear fabricated.
The hobby is in the middle of a shill bidding crisis. Pryan. Dr. Beckett. Fanatics Collect marketplace. All under fire for auction manipulation.
And now Rick Probstein—appears to have launched a platform specifically designed to facilitate shill bidding while leaving customer data completely exposed.