{"id":186,"date":"2014-05-22T00:53:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T08:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cheapsslsecurity.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2021-01-26T09:13:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T17:13:21","slug":"online-shopping-giant-ebay-under-security-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheapsslsecurity.com\/blog\/online-shopping-giant-ebay-under-security-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Shopping Giant EBay is under Security Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today all the <strong>e-commerce<\/strong> businesses are worried about the <strong>security<\/strong> of their shopping cart, customer information &amp; their transaction database and they are spending a whopping amount of money to make their businesses secure and to keep the hackers away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In <strong>March-2014<\/strong> US\u2019s biggest online shopping retailer <strong>Target<\/strong> was breached and around 40 million users\u2019 credit card information has been stolen. But Target fails again to provide security to its users and users\u2019 information gets breached again in <strong>May-2014.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recently the <strong>OpenSSL<\/strong> bug <strong>Heartbleed<\/strong> has put many businesses at risk of security breach &amp; cyber attack.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">How Ebay was breached?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This time world most popular shopping giant &amp; retailer <strong>EBay<\/strong> failed to provide security to its users. As per <strong><a title=\"EBay is suffering form Security Breach\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/gordonkelly\/2014\/05\/21\/ebay-suffers-massive-security-breach-all-users-must-their-change-passwords\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Forbes report<\/a><\/strong>, a massive security breach has been placed on EBay and EBay have requested all users to change their passwords.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-187 size-full\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin-top: 4px; margin-bottom: 4px;\" title=\"EBay\" src=\"https:\/\/cheapsslsecurity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ebay.png\" alt=\"EBay Logo\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Reports from <strong>EBay<\/strong> clarifies that \u201cNo evidence of the compromise resulting in unauthorized activity for eBay users, and no evidence of any unauthorized access to users\u2019 financial or credit card information, which is stored separately in encrypted formats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This security breach was carried out somewhere between <strong>February and March<\/strong>, but EBay discovered it recently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The hackers were successfully able to crack the log-in credentials of some EBay employees to gain the access to EBay\u2019s corporate network.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>EBay\u2019s law &amp; enforcement team<\/strong> investigated about this issue and found that information such as Users\u2019 name, login ID, login password, email address; phone number, date of birth, etc have been compromised.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, EBay mentioned it has a separate database for storing user\u2019s financial information (like credit card and debit card numbers and PINs) so hackers are not able to crack this financial information. Luckily they didn&#8217;t find any fraudulent activity here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>EBay<\/strong> is very much serious about this issue and is working toward improving the <strong>security standards<\/strong>. Their teams are looking forward to regaining full confidence from their customers, shoppers, and merchants towards EBay.<b><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today all the e-commerce businesses are worried about the security of their shopping cart, customer information &amp; their transaction database and they are spending a whopping amount of money to make their businesses secure and to keep the hackers away. 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