eBay Data Breach
Between February and March 2014, global e-commerce and online auction pioneer eBay Inc. suffered a massive corporate breach compromising its core user database.
Exposed Data Types
6- Customer names
- Encrypted passwords
- Email addresses
- Postal addresses
- Phone numbers
- Dates of birth
About This Breach
Threat actors compromised employee corporate credentials to infiltrate internal network servers. Publicly disclosed in May 2014, the cyberattack exposed the personal records of 145 million registered users worldwide, including encrypted passwords, full names, email addresses, physical mailing addresses, telephone numbers, and dates of birth, prompting one of the largest mandatory password resets in internet history.
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