It emerged this week auction site eBay had suffered potentially their biggest-ever cyber attack, leaving a database holding its 233m customers' data vulnerable.
Users were urged to change their passwords after the breach was detected. While hackers did not gain access to customers’ financial information, it did affect a database holding encrypted passwords as well as unencrypted data including customer names, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth. As a result, three US states have begun investigating the e-commerce company's security practices.
As we conduct more and more of our lives online, the security of our personal data has become increasingly important. We would like to hear from people who have experienced what happens when personal data is stolen. How did it come about? What was your reaction? Were you able to resolve it quickly? And what lessons have you learnt from your experience?
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