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Hackers steal 145 million eBay users' records
EBAY Inc said that hackers raided its network three months ago. stealing some 145 million user records from a database in what is poised to go down as one of the biggest data breaches in history based on the number of accounts compromised.
It advised customers to change their passwords immediately. saying they were among the pieces of data stolen by cyber criminals who carried out the attack between late February and early March.
EBay spokeswoman Amanda Miller told Reuters (hose passwords were encrypted and that the company had no reason to believe the hackers had broken the code that scrambled them, "There is no evidence of impact on any EBay customers." Miller said. "We don't know that they decrypted the passwords because it would not be easy to do." She said the taken copied a massive user database that contained those passwords, as well as email addresses, birth dales, mailing addresses and other personal information, but not financial data such as credit card nui n bers. The company had earlier said a large number of accounts may have been compromised, but declined to say how many. Security experts advised EBay customers to be on the alert for fraud, especially if they used the same passwords for other accounts. "This is not a breach that only hurts HBay. This is a breach that hurts all websites," said Michael Coates. director of product security with Shape Security.
Once the passwords arc unserain bled, attackers could use automated software that seeks to log into thou sands of popular services, including Facebook. Twitter, popular email services and online banking sites. he said. EBay said it had not seen any indication of increased fraudulent activity on its flagship site and that there was no evidence of its PayPal online payment service having been breached.
It advised customers to change their passwords immediately. saying they were among the pieces of data stolen by cyber criminals who carried out the attack between late February and early March.
EBay spokeswoman Amanda Miller told Reuters (hose passwords were encrypted and that the company had no reason to believe the hackers had broken the code that scrambled them, "There is no evidence of impact on any EBay customers." Miller said. "We don't know that they decrypted the passwords because it would not be easy to do." She said the taken copied a massive user database that contained those passwords, as well as email addresses, birth dales, mailing addresses and other personal information, but not financial data such as credit card nui n bers. The company had earlier said a large number of accounts may have been compromised, but declined to say how many. Security experts advised EBay customers to be on the alert for fraud, especially if they used the same passwords for other accounts. "This is not a breach that only hurts HBay. This is a breach that hurts all websites," said Michael Coates. director of product security with Shape Security.
Once the passwords arc unserain bled, attackers could use automated software that seeks to log into thou sands of popular services, including Facebook. Twitter, popular email services and online banking sites. he said. EBay said it had not seen any indication of increased fraudulent activity on its flagship site and that there was no evidence of its PayPal online payment service having been breached.
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