2014 Cyber Attack on eBay
On May 21, 2014 eBay announced a truly massive data breach of sensitive data on 145 million customers, making it perhaps the second largest data breach at that time. This data breach was happened as the information like Customer name, Email address, Physical address, Phone number, Date of birth was not encrypted at all instead was stored as a plain text. What was compromised: Usernames, encrypted passwords, phone numbers, physical addresses and date of birth. What was not stolen: Financial info (stored separately and encrypted) EBay was using encryption, which is the more easily broken. Many consumers use the same password on multiple sites. The attackers could quickly take over accounts across the web wherever a user reused their username and password on another site The responsibility for attack was taken by "Syrian Electronic Army"though...