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Security research firm NordLocker publishes a report on an anonymous trojan virus program that has stolen 1.2 terabytes of login credential information and personally identifiable information from 26 million users between 2018 and 2020. The login credentials were stored in a cloud database and ranged across a large selection of website types from almost a million websites including Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Twitter, Walmart, Apple, Paypal, Gmail, Netflix, and Steam. The malware also targeted stored files in desktops and Downloads folders. Over 6 million files were stolen, with 50% being text files, 1 million images, and 650,000 Word or PDF files. The malware also took screenshots and images of users with their own webcams.
2021-06-11

eBay announces plans to spin off its PayPal business and fire 2,400 employees during 2015.
2015-01-21

eBay forces its users to change their passwords after a database containing encrypted user passwords and other non-financial data is compromised by a cyber-attack.
2014-05-21

Three previously unpublished short stories by J. D. Salinger are leaked online against the late author's wishes.
2013-11-29

Glenn Greenwald, a reporter with "The Guardian" who has published information provided him by NSA contractor Edward Snowden, is leaving the British newspaper to join a new journalistic enterprise to be bankrolled by Pierre Omidyar, the founder of eBay.
2013-10-15

A man who found what he believes to be the secret recipe for Coca-Cola at an estate sale sells the instructions on eBay for $15 million.
2013-05-15

Online auctioneer eBay asks its customers to fight against a proposed U.S. online sales tax.
2013-04-21

Hewlett-Packard fires CEO Léo Apotheker, replacing him with former eBay CEO Meg Whitman.
2011-09-22

One of the balls used in the 2010 FIFA World Cup Final sells for £48,200 on eBay.
2010-07-17

J. D. Salinger, author of the novel "The Catcher in the Rye", dies at the age of 91.
2010-01-28