CNET — eBay’s morning just went from bad to worse. The e-commerce site confirmed Wednesday that its corporate network was hacked and a database with users’ passwords was compromised. While eBay says there is no evidence that users’ financial information was accessed in the hack, the company is telling all users to change their passwords.
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eBay contacted CNET after this story was initially published, saying that it discovered “recently” that it was a victim of “a cyber attack on our corporate information network, which compromised a database containing eBay user passwords.” The company’s spokesperson told CNET, however, that there is “no evidence that any financial information was accessed or compromised.”
The statement follows an odd stream of events this morning when eBay-owned PayPal posted a blog, entitled, “eBay, Inc. to Ask All eBay users to Change Passwords.” That blog post had no content included, but quickly hit the Web after it was retweeted dozens of times. The page was taken down, causing even more confusion for users of the online auction house.
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