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eBay was attacked by hackers, user accounts were revealed

eBay has just announced it is being attacked by hackers on its database. At the same time, it is recommended that users should quickly change the password to access the system.

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eBay is currently attacked by hackers

Neowin reiterated eBay's announcement that hackers hacked into eBay's database during late February and early March. Currently, it is unclear how many user accounts are affected by this attack.

In the short term, eBay said that hackers only hold information such as account name, password, home address, real user name, email address, phone number, date of birth . However , information related to PayPal financial services of users has not been affected, because the service has been separately encrypted eBay elsewhere.

It can be said that eBay is quite passive in this attack, only through discovering its employee account was hacked 2 weeks ago. Then, when eBay broadens the scope of the investigation, it will know the case.

Also according to eBay's recommendations, users should quickly change their service login password at eBay. Besides, if you are using the same account and password at eBay in other services, you should also change your password to be safe.

Reportedly, eBay is a well-known e-commerce site in the world, founded in 1995 in California ( USA ). It is estimated that in 2013, about 205 billion USD were traded through eBay.

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