![]() ![]() Dating back to last year, the list of other companies to be hacked includes Twitter, Facebook, Zendesk, Apple, Microsoft, Evernote, Snapchat, Skype and Bitly. With this news, eBay becomes just the latest website which most people likely thought was secure to be breached. The company noted that it will begin e-mailing its users today to update their information, and, if they use the same password on other sites (which, come on, everyone totally does) they should change those also. So, even though no financial info was leaked, what did the hackers get access to? Using what eBay calls a "small number of employee log-in credentials," the hackers were able to see the name, encrypted password, email address, physical address, phone number and date of birth of eBay customers. ![]() "We know our customers trust us with their information, and we take seriously our commitment to maintaining a safe, secure and trusted global marketplace." "Information security and customer data protection are of paramount importance to eBay Inc., and eBay regrets any inconvenience or concern that this password reset may cause our customers," the company wrote. Still, eBay is urging its users to change their passwords, just to be on the safe side, as "changing passwords is a best practice and will help enhance security for eBay users." The company says that there is "no evidence of any unauthorized access to financial or credit card information, which is stored separately in encrypted formats," nor any unauthorized access to any personal or financial information for PayPal users. This time it was eBay, which revealed on Wednesday that its database had been breached back in between late February and early March, though the company only became aware of the incident two weeks ago. In what is becoming a distressingly routine event these days, another major, and widely trusted, Internet company has been hacked. No financial information was breached, but hackers got access to names, addresses and phone numbers ![]()
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