This is a pretty big hack by the looks of it.
Ebay are saying every user should change their password after the database potentially containing 223 million user details was hacked.
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Ebay's announcement that a database holding the personal details of users ? potentially all 223 million worldwide ? was hacked raises a number of serious questions.
It's the biggest reported hack ever in terms of the number of people affected, but does not affect financial data, which is stored separately.
Q: Do I need to change my eBay password?
A: Yes. eBay is recommending this to all users.
Q: But I just changed it a few weeks ago when all the Heartbleed stuff was happening. Do I really need to?
A: eBay says that it discovered the hack about two weeks ago, and that it happened between "late February and early March". If you haven't changed your password since then, you should.
Q: What data was stolen?
A: eBays says that the database with users' customer names, encrypted password, email address, physical address, phone number and date of birth was breached. It hasn't said how much of that data was copied. It's best to assume that it all was.
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