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Taken from another site and posted here for awareness.
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 from PayPal's site, causing even more confusion for users of the online auction house.
eBay has since posted information about the hack on its official blog. The company will ask all users to change their passwords starting later on Wednesday.
eBay shares are down 1.73 percent, or 90 cents, to $51.06, following news of the hack.
Source: http://www.cnet.com/...ange-passwords/
It is strongly suggested that you change your info (passwords and so on) asap to avoid anything malicious possibly happening to your accounts.
