Global Notice - Change Your eBay/PayPal Passwords!

[RGM81]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/techn...ticle18771622/

E-commerce company eBay Inc. said a database was compromised in a hacking attack between late February and early March, and clients’ non-financial information was stolen.
EBay said the compromised database contained customer names, encrypted passwords, e-mail addresses, birth dates, physical addresses and phone numbers. It said it would ask users to change their passwords.


“For the time being, we cannot comment on the specific number of accounts impacted. However, we believe there may be a large number of accounts involved and we are asking all eBay users to change their passwords,” eBay spokeswoman Kari Ramirez said. EBay has more than 100 million monthly active users.
The company said in a statement the attack has allowed unauthorized access to the company’s corporate network but it found no evidence of any unauthorized access to financial or credit card information.
The attack was made through compromised employee accounts that allowed unauthorized access to its corporate network, the company said in a statement. It said the breach was first detected about two weeks ago.
In a blog post outlining the breach, the company said it had "no indication of increased fraudulent account activity on eBay" and "no evidence of unauthorized access or compromises to personal or financial information for PayPal users. PayPal data is stored separately on a secure network, and all PayPal financial information is encrypted."

[centrehice]

Why hasn't eBay sent an e-mail about this? Paypal was suppose to be secure, but we had to change our password last month. I am not surprised that eBay is compromised, they are a shoddy corporation all around.

Especially in not informing people. I have not heard anything from them.

[MW Connection]

it is so hard to sell on ebay with current fees and not this.

[pwaldo]

Why hasn't eBay sent an e-mail about this? Paypal was suppose to be secure, but we had to change our password last month. I am not surprised that eBay is compromised, they are a shoddy corporation all around.

Especially in not informing people. I have not heard anything from them.

No site on the Internet is ever secure. If you have enough time and resources you can compromise pretty much anything. Which is the reason why I don't get why people want to have even more information posted on the Internet through things like cloud services and whatnot.

[Cunnuc]

Why are we just hearing about this now?

I agree that no site is safe. There were millions of bitcoins stolen a couple months ago via trap doors taking fractions of each transaction made. The money was given back, it was merely a show of power and a demonstration.

[Drewk86a]

Several articles I read on Huff Post and Wired said that only eBay was compromised. they said that Paypal information is kept on separate servers at a different location. They claim the only data hacked was eBay data.

Still, it's always better to be safe than sorry.

[Crosby 87]

No site on the Internet is ever secure. If you have enough time and resources you can compromise pretty much anything. Which is the reason why I don't get why people want to have even more information posted on the Internet through things like cloud services and whatnot.

pretty much this. I was able to able to hack the popular app "snapchat " within about 45 mins after downloading and searching. The pictures dont "destroy" is the listen here.

[centrehice]

Finally something has appeared on my eBay main page informing users to change their e-mail. There is still nothing sent to my eBay Messages.

Poor Form

[RGM81]

Why are we just hearing about this now?

I agree that no site is safe. There were millions of bitcoins stolen a couple months ago via trap doors taking fractions of each transaction made. The money was given back, it was merely a show of power and a demonstration.

Just like Superman III or Office Space.

[cardscardscards]

Richard, you forgot to print out the new cover sheet for your TPS report.
Oh and I'm gonna need you to come in to work this Saturday and Sunday? Yeah thanks, that's great.

Don't forget that cover sheet.