data breach eBay, but no one knew the extent of it. According to the company, sensitive data of 145 million users was leaked.
Read Beware eBay Hacked! Change your password immediately
eBay continues to inform users of its services to change their passwords, given that this data is already in the "hands" of hackers.
Fortunately, the passwords were encrypted, and the company says there is no reason to believe hackers could break the encryption. Of course, no matter what the company says, there is always a chance that this could happen.
According to Reuters, eBay has hired FireEye Inc.'s MANDIANT research firm to investigate the matter.
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