EBay urging users to change passwords after breach

Online marketplace eBay says it will urge users to change their passwords following a "cyberattack" on a database with encrypted passwords and non-financial data.

The database includes information such as customers’ names, encrypted passwords, email and physical addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth. As of the end of their first quarter, the company has 145 million active buyers.

"It’s substantial," says Simon Eappariello, senior vice president of engineering at iBoss Network Security. "If they’re going to contact all of their users to change their passwords, that’s a major breach in anyone’s book. That’s a lot of data."

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