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Forbes As eBay Notifies Users Of Hack, States Launch InvestigationForbesUpdate May 23, 2014 at 2:15 pm PDT: The story below has been updated with new information regarding California's involvement in the joint investigation of eBay. At least four U.S. states have started an investigation into eBay eBay in light of …

Historic hacker attack on EBay happened 3 months agoNew York PostEBay Inc. said that hackers raided its network three months ago, accessing some 145 million user records in what is poised to go down as one of the biggest data breaches in history, based on the number of accounts compromised. …

Telegraph.co.uk eBay hacking: online gangs are after youTelegraph.co.ukSome of the numbers involved in the eBay security breach reported this week are so large that they are difficult to grasp. Up to 233 million people have had their personal details stolen – their telephone numbers, their names, their postal and email …

USA TODAY Possible eBay user info offered for sale onlineUSA TODAYSAN FRANCISCO – It may have taken eBay weeks to tell users its user database had been hacked, but it took less than 24 hours for groups claiming to have access to the information to offer it up for sale. …

Since the eBay Inc announcement of a massive data breach a seller has turned up on Pastebin (a notorious site used for posting anonymously that is often used by hacktivists dumping data from hacks) offering a full copy of the 145,312,663 usernames, passwords, postal addresses and date of births from eBay. …

eBay slammed for daft post-hack password swap adviceRegistereBay has been criticised for its advice to consumers on choosing a strong password in the wake of a megabreach that prompted it to tell millions of users to change their passwords. The online tat bazaar admitted on Wednesday that a database containing … …

Kansas City Star Change your eBay password right nowBGRSomething is not right. It was unclear at the time of this writing exactly what happened, but it looks like eBay may have been the victim of some kind of breach. The company is apparently preparing to instruct all users to change …

Since the eBay Inc announcement of a massive data breach a seller has turned up on Pastebin (a notorious site used for posting anonymously that is often used by hacktivists dumping data from hacks) offering a full copy of the 145,312,663 usernames, passwords, postal addresses and date of births from eBay. …

eBay is facing investigations in the US and the UK over its huge data breach which led it to ask 145 million customers to reset their passwords. More: continued here

eBay on Thursday acknowledged that some of its customers’ personal information may have been compromised following a breach, advising users to immediately change their passwords. The announcement has apparently been enough for some creative individuals with malicious intentions to advertise online “full eBay database dumps,” masquerading as the hackers that …