The eBay auction website is asking all 233 million of its users to change their passwords. The users’ information have fallen into the hands of hackers. No financial data has been stolen, but names and email addresses as well as home addresses and phone numbers have been compromised.
“Our customers are our highest priority; and to ensure they continue to have a safe, secure and trusted experience on eBay, we will be asking all eBay users to change their passwords,” the company reported.
Currently eBay is reporting that PayPal has not been compromised; however to be safe I would recommend updating your password there as well.
For more information, see https://www.cnet.com/news/ebay-hacked-requests-all-users-change-passwords
For a review on choosing safe passwords, see my previous post at: https://bit.ly/1lwiMfF