eBay Urges Password Changes After Breach
Summary: eBay asked its 145 million customers to change passwords after a breach in late February and early March 2014, traced to compromised log-in credentials for a small number of employees that gave attackers access to the corporate network. The exposed data included names, encrypted passwords, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth, and eBay said it found no evidence of unauthorized access to financial or credit card information stored separately in encrypted formats.
What you should know: The passwords went out encrypted but eBay has not said what encryption it used, leaving attackers to work on cracking them while 145 million accounts sit exposed. A single set of employee credentials was enough to open the corporate network.
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