Company says EVERY Ebay Account has been Hacked

Hackers obtain name, address, date of birth, telephone number, email address and password of 233 million people

The online auction site eBay has admitted that the name, address, date of birth, telephone number, email address and encrypted password of every eBay account holder worldwide – 233 million people – have been obtained by hackers, in one of the world’s largest ever online security breaches.

ebay has said all users should change their passwords immediately.

The vast cache of sensitive data could be used for an almost limitless number of fraudulent purposes by hackers.

The attack occurred “between late February and early March” the online auction house said in a blog post, but was only discovered in the past two weeks.

The company said in the blog post that no financial data was accessed and that credit card information is stored separately in an encrypted format.

The hackers gained access to the details after they obtained “a small number of employee log in credentials, allowing unauthorized access to eBay’s corporate network,” the company said.

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