{"id":4616,"date":"2014-05-22T17:53:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T01:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=4616"},"modified":"2014-05-22T18:10:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T02:10:29","slug":"after-getting-hacked-ebay-requests-145-million-members-to-reset-passwords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/after-getting-hacked-ebay-requests-145-million-members-to-reset-passwords\/","title":{"rendered":"After Getting Hacked, eBay Urges 145 Million Members to Reset Password"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>eBay has announced this week that their database has been hacked and the personal information of its 145 million members has been compromised. eBay is requesting that users change their passwords.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/info.ebayinc.com\/\">eBay<\/a>, &#8220;The database, which was compromised between late February and early March, included eBay customers\u2019 name, encrypted password,\u00a0email\u00a0address, physical address, phone number and date of birth. However, the\u00a0database\u00a0did not contain financial information or other confidential personal information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>eBay said that PayPal, which is owned by eBay, was not impacted by this attack because it&#8217;s data is stored separately on a secure network and that all PayPal financial\u00a0information is encrypted. That&#8217;s good news.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second-biggest online account breach so far, after the 152 million user accounts involved in the Adobe attack. eBay is a San Jose based company and in 2013 they did over $200 billion in business.<\/p>\n<p><b>Recommendation:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Change your eBay password right away, even if you haven\u2019t used the eBay site in years. PayPal, which is owned by eBay, was not compromised so eBay is not asking customers to change their PayPal password.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4617\" alt=\"eBay_hacked\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/eBay_hacked-300x116.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/eBay_hacked-300x116.png 300w, https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/eBay_hacked.png 659w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eBay has announced this week that their database has been hacked and the personal information of its 145 million members has been compromised. eBay is requesting that users change their passwords. According to eBay, &#8220;The database, which was compromised between late February and early March, included eBay customers\u2019 name, encrypted password,\u00a0email\u00a0address, physical address, phone number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}