eBay HACKED ,128 MILLION USERS IMPACTED

     EBAY HACKED

eBay has confirmed that it is hacked by outside people of it’s organization. It experienced one of the biggest criminal cyber attacks ever and has requested its 128 million users to change passwords.

TIP: Changing passwords is a best practice and it will help enhance security for your account .It also  worth for all social networking websites too.

HOW IT WAS  HACKED?

The hackers found small number of employee log-in credentials and gained unauthorized  access to eBay’s corporate network . As far as they informed that eBay database contained encrypted passwords and other non-financial data compromised between late February and early march,however eBay discovered it only two weeks ago. The cracked data contains information about customer’s name,encrypted password ,email address,physical address,phone number and date of birth.

But other financial information and other confidential personal information about users were safe .

eBay has stated officially “there is no evidence of compromising resulting in unauthorized activity for eBay users,and no evidence  of any unauthorized access to financial or credit card information.

This eBay attack could be the largest online breach(crack) following previous year’s information,which had impacted about 110 million customers.