eBay Confident User Data Safe after Network Security Breach

The database of the e-commerce giant, eBay, has been reportedly breached by hackers since Wednesday. 

eBay initially believed that its customers' data was safe as forensic investigators reviewed the network security breach, Reuters reported today. 

The company has also been notifying users since they realized the user data was involved.
"For a very long period of time we did not believe that there was any eBay customer data compromised," global marketplaces chief, Devin Wenig, said as quoted by Reuters.

Wenig explained that the hackers got in using the credentials of three corporate employees, eventually making their way to the user database. Hackers accessed email addresses and encrypted passwords belonging to all 145 million eBay users.

However, the Internet retail giant has no plans on compensating customers or offer free credit monitoring for now because it had detected no financial fraud, Wenig said.

Wenig declined to comment when asked if he thought eBay had good security prior to the breach. He said the company would now bolster its security systems, and has mobilized senior executives in a subsequent investigation of the attack.

"We want to make sure it doesn't happen again so we're going to continue to look our procedures, harden our operational environment and add levels of security where it's appropriate," Wenig added.

Source : Tempo