In the last year, some of the biggest data breaches in history have occurred. The Target breach affected over 70 million customers who innocently made purchases at their retail stores. Following was the Ebay data breach, which also affected its large demographic of customers. Ebay and Paypal users typically have a debit/credit card or checking account associated with their username. Statistically, nearly HALF of adult Americans have been a victim of some type of fraud. A comment was recently made to me that it seems like these breaches are becoming less potent because they are happening every day. The fact that people feel they these breaches are less potent is… Read More
Continue ReadingEbay Security Breach Causes Users to Change Usernames and Passwords
A “fun” new security breach to talk about! The security breach Target suffered late last year might finally be old news after the announcement of Ebay’s newest security breach. Ebay posted an announcement this morning that they recommend all users change their usernames and passwords, this is due to a breach discovered on their network. More specifically this compromises the database containing the usernames and passwords. At the time of this article, Ebay does not have evidence that the usernames and passwords have been used maliciously. However, users typically have their credit cards, checking accounts, or PayPal account associated with Ebay. Although Ebay has not mentioned resetting passwords on… Read More
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