There has been a lot of press over the eBay hack, in which their entire user database appears to a have been stolen and downloaded via a compromised staff password.
All the passwords were encrypted, but in a manner believed to be breakable, so the the key message has been to “change your eBay password”.
However, there are a couple of points that are of more importance than changing just the eBay password. Bear in mind this data was stolen in the January / February timescales – between 4 and 5 months ago. Its shameful that we’ve only been alerted now.
So, your attention needs to be focussed a bit wider than your eBay password. You need to assess your password policy and think identity protection.
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