This message is from: Frederick Pack <friendlyfred2...@gmail.com>

"eBay's morning just went from bad to worse. The e-commerce site confirmed
Wednesday that its corporate network was hacked and a database with users'
passwords was compromised. While eBay says there is no evidence that users'
financial information was accessed in the hack, the company is telling all
users to change their passwords.

eBay contacted CNET after this story was initially published, saying it
discovered "recently" that it was a victim of "a cyber attack on our
corporate information network, which compromised a database containing eBay
user passwords." The company's spokesperson told CNET there is "no evidence
that any financial information was accessed or compromised."

The statement follows an odd stream of events this morning when eBay-owned
PayPal posted a blog entitled "eBay, Inc. to Ask All eBay users to Change
Passwords." The blog post included nothing but the title, but quickly hit
the Web after it was retweeted dozens of times. The blog post was then
taken 
down<https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/PayPal-Forward/eBay-Inc-To-Ask-All-eBay-Users-To-Change-Passwords>
from
PayPal's site, causing even more confusion for users of the online auction
house.

eBay has since posted information about the
hack<https://blog.ebay.com/ebay-inc-ask-ebay-users-change-passwords/>
on
its official blog. The company will ask all users to change their passwords
starting later on Wednesday."

source:

http://www.cnet.com/news/ebay-hacked-requests-all-users-change-passwords/?tag=nl.e404&s_cid=e404&ttag=e404&ftag=CAD1acfa04

Be safe out there..

Fred

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Fred Pack
Packs Peak Stables
Wilkeson, WA

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