Hackers attacked eBay. Stolen user data – News 24

authorities eBay announced that the service has become a target of attack by hackers who stole data from user accounts. Internet portal asks users to change their password. The request applies to 145 million people.

Ebay, one of the largest portals offering online auctions fell victim to hackers. The company is only now admitted that there was a burglary which resulted in the stolen database containing information on users – the portal niebezpiecznik.pl .

hacker attack occurred at the turn of February and March. The fact was, however, burglary discovered until two weeks ago.

American giant says that stolen were encrypted password . The database also contained the name, address, e – mail address, home address, telephone number and date of birth of customers. As eBay notes, the attacker does not have access to financial data, or credit card numbers and PayPal accounts.

Hackers gained access to the system after the logins and passwords of employees service with which they got to the company’s internal network. Portal niebezpiecznik.pl suspects that the terms of access to a VPN (Virtual Private Network) and walking around the internal network.

I do not know how eBay store the password users. The communication uses the word “encrypted” or “encrypted”.

EBay said he did not see any suspicious changes in user accounts. The company insists, however, that in any case, customers should change their passwords for access to eBay, as well as to all the sites, which were used with the password.

It is also unclear whether the stolen database for all customers . Currently the company is working with the police and professionals to rapidly analyze the situation.

Ebay is the largest online auction site in the world. It was founded on Sept. 3, 1995, by Pierre Omidyar. The company currently operates in 37 countries, in Poland started its activity in 2005