Data Breach Alert: Over 10 million eBay Korea users impacted in massive hack

Posted by Joe on April 17th, 2008

Popular US based auction website eBay announced this week that hackers had breached the records of about 10.8 million users of its Korean website. The incident occurred sometime in late February.

In working with local authorities to ascertain the facts related to the breach, eBay has found that it is highly unlikely that sensitive credit card or payment information was exposed in the breach, although names, site ids and other identifying information was definitely exposed.

The identity of the perpetrators is not currently known, but police believe that it was parties based outside of Korea.

This breach certainly highlights the potential risks of large scale hacker attacks on major Internet websites. We recommend that those individuals that frequently store information online or make Internet purchases consider an identity theft protection service to help safeguard their personal information.