Week 2 Assignment 6/13/16

EBay Cyber Attack
It seems that no one and many companies are not safe any longer while on the internet numerous companies have been targeted by hackers as of late. One of these such global companies is EBay it was targeted between February and March of 2014. Hackers targeted EBay and were able to find loopholes in which information was able to be stolen from the global giant. Email addresses, birthdays, passwords physical addresses and phone numbers were some of the things stolen from the website. The company said that it did not find any issues with finances such as credit card information was not compromised during the attack.
On the day that the attack happened stocks fell on the New York Stock Exchange down to
3.2 percent. EBay was not able to find out exactly how many accounts were compromised at the time of the attack and the aftermath of it. Hackers were able to get into the network through hacked employee accounts that allowed access into the network. EBay did not noticed this until two weeks after the attack actually took place. PayPal accounts that were linked to the accounts that were compromised were not breached in the attack.
The police and many security analysts assisted in finding out more information about the attack and just how the hackers were able to get into the employee accounts. EBay recommended to the members of the site to change passwords immediately and verify PayPal. Information as soon as possible. During this attack many of the users claimed that when bidding on items the site redirected them to another site. This was in attempt to gain names and passwords from these users. Once EBay found out about the suspicious activity the account was isolated but this did not take place until twelve hours later after the activity was reported.

EBay Cyber Attack

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