{"id":30977,"date":"2014-05-21T10:52:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T14:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=30977"},"modified":"2014-05-21T10:52:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T14:52:37","slug":"ebay-customers-must-reset-passwords-after-major-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2014\/05\/ebay-customers-must-reset-passwords-after-major-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"Ebay Customers Must Reset <br>Passwords After Major Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By CNN<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30978\" title=\"ebay\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ebay.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"193\" \/>Hackers quietly broke into eBay two months ago and stole a database full of user information, the online auction site revealed Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Criminals now have possession of eBay customer names, account passwords, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers and birth dates.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the passwords were encrypted, but there&#8217;s no telling when or if the hackers can decrypt them. As a precaution, eBay is resetting everyone&#8217;s passwords.<\/p>\n<p>The company isn&#8217;t saying how many of its 148 million active accounts were affected &#8212; or even how many customers had information stored in that database. But an eBay spokeswoman said the hack impacted &#8220;a large number of accounts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->EBay&#8217;s subsidiary, PayPal, said it was untouched by the data breach. PayPal data, which is sensitive because it includes payment information, is kept on a separate network.<\/p>\n<p>To hack into the eBay database, the cyber attackers managed to get their hands on &#8220;a small number&#8221; of eBay employee log-in credentials, the company said. They then used that to worm their way into eBay&#8217;s corporate network. The hackers grabbed the customer database between late February and early March.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t until two weeks ago that eBay discovered employee credentials had been stolen, the company said. The company then conducted a forensic investigation of its computers and found the extent of the theft.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it hasn&#8217;t spotted any increase in fraudulent activity on eBay yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By CNN Hackers quietly broke into eBay two months ago and stole a database full of user information, the online auction site revealed Wednesday. Criminals now have possession of eBay&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}