Seen This? eBay Hacked - Database Stolen
 

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.

woooooow

Cool! Everyone is so fucked now... Ha-ha!

Is eBay popular in Lebanon?

wtf why aren't they sending out mails saying that everyone should change their passwords?

Ni idea, I didn't get one :(

And it was months ago also. Yet we heard nothing till now.

Shocking...

Yeah, scared it would affect them financially.. Aren't they owned by Google?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27503290

The article says, that: Online marketplace eBay is forcing users to change their passwords after a cyber-attack compromised its systems.

But I can login with my old password and everything works like before

sure
i buy lots from there

And I logged on yesterday for the first time in a month and of course had to use my password. The password is 10 years old, worked without a problem. I've NOT received any communications from ebay.

That is fucking strange. Companies forced to change passwords for way smaller threats, even for just suspicions of threats. And this looks like confirmed case of stolen email passwords. Something doe snot add up.

I'm sure there will be an ebay fee I'll be assessed for the hack.

Jesus fucking Christ this shit is getting old people...

I just logged into my ebay account with no problems.

Seems to be legit:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...A4K0B420140521

I just went to log into mine, and was sent to this:
http://www.ebay.com/trylater

Page not available

Ebay is asking its users to reset their passwords due to the unauthorized access to our corporate information network. This may result in a delay of service due to the high traffic volume. We ask for your patience and that you return to eBay soon. In the meantime, please be assured that no activity can occur on your account until your password is reset.

I was already logged in, but to change your password, you have to login again. I got the same redirect as fitzmulti. Fleabay down $0.08 in trading today.

I wonder if they stored the passwords encrypted with "salt".
If so then the hackers will have to unencrypt passwords and this will slow them down big time.

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The passwords were most likely salted, if you had a weak password, blame yourself

This is going to be great for sales this week! :disgust :disgust :disgust

Just changed it,can't be too careful nowadays

Has anyone been able to successfully change their password recently? I keep getting a technical error message as well. Been like that for a week. What a joke!

I knew about this back in February when I purchased part of the database.

Change everything!

:thumbsup

somebody will get rich

IMPORTANT: PASSWORD UPDATE

Dear eBay Member,

To help ensure customers' trust and security on eBay, I am asking all eBay users to change their passwords.

Here's why: Recently, our company discovered a cyberattack on our corporate information network. This attack compromised a database containing eBay user passwords.

What's important for you to know: We have no evidence that your financial information was accessed or compromised. And your password was encrypted.

If they got emails AND any sort of buying history, that is WITHOUT QUESTION, the most valuable list for spamers that could be nabbed.

That is going to generate someone north of 50 million dollars. Crazy

I wonder if the passwords were encrypted or hashed? Because if they were encrypted and they lost the key with the data... this is going to be bad regardless of the passwords quality.