24/05/2014

EBay customers must reset passwords after major hack.



Hackers quietly broke into eBay two months ago and stole a database full of user information, the online auction site revealed Wednesday.

The company said the passwords were encrypted and are virtually impossible to be deciphered. Still, as a precaution, eBay is asking everyone to reset their passwords late Wednesday.

The company isn't saying how many of its 148 million active accounts were affected -- or even how many customers had information stored in that database. But an eBay spokeswoman said the hack impacted "a large number of accounts."
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