Stolen eBay Database On Sale for Bitcoin is Fake
Earlier this week it was revealed that e-commerce giant eBay fell victim to a sophisticated cyber attack and that its use database had been breached. In the days following the attack a curious Pastebin posting appeared online, offering to sell eBay's breached database for 1.45BTC. However, eBay insists the database on sale is not authentic. The hack. The security breach has been described as one of the biggest cyber attacks of its kind in history. More than 230 million buyers and sellers have an account with eBay and the company is asking all of them to change their passwords. The number....
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