eBay Data Breach

eBay Data Breach: In yet another report of a big company losing information about its users, eBay announced on Wednesday that a database containing usernames and passwords was hacked and all users should consider their log in information compromised.

According to a company spokesperson, there is “no evidence that any financial information was accessed or compromised.”

However, eBay did say that in addition to usernames and passwords, criminals also obtained physical addresses, phones numbers and dates of birth.

For those that may not know, eBay also owns the online payment company PayPal.  While they say that the information for PayPal is stored on a separate network and that all of its data is encrypted, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to also change the password for PayPal at the same time, especially if the passwords for eBay and PayPal matched.

The hacking of eBay should be taken very seriously.  The site has 128 million users and is yet another instance of a major corporation losing its customers data.  The eBay data breach could end up being the largest hack ever, surpassing the 110 million believe to have been affected in the recent Target data breach.

*****

Founded in 2010, Prairie Star Technology is an independent IT service and support firm located in Overland Park, KS.  We offer on-site computer repair and virus removal throughout the greater Kansas City area, including Overland Park, Shawnee, Olathe, Kansas City, Lenexa, Prairie Village, and Leawood and remote help desk support to clients nationally.  We specialize in improving computer performance, reliability and security for residential and small business customers.  We are focused on providing fast, professional and CompTIA certified computer support to clients nationwide.   Our unique managed service program, Complete Computer Care, combines remote monitoring, preventative maintenance and Internet security all in one bundled offering starting at $15.99 a month.

If you would like to find out more about how we can improve your computers security to better protect your personal identity, documents, pictures and other data and make your computer faster and more fun to use, call us at 913/730-6262 or on our Contact Us page.  If you are going to take on the risks of the Internet, you owe it to your data to have the best Internet security possible.