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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 prohibits sellers from using PayPal, now mandating that all funds will be transferred directly to and from their bank accounts.
2021-06-1

President Rafael Correa announces a sales tax increase, and a one-time levy on millionaires as the country deals with the enormous damage from this disaster.
2016-04-20

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

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

PayPal, the online payments business, a division of eBay, launches a European version of the PayPal Here mobile payments system.
2013-02-21

The Government of Japan says it will double sales tax over four years to fund rising social security costs.
2011-06-17

Paul Allen's company, Interval Licensing LLC, files a patent infringement lawsuit against Google, Apple Computer, AOL, eBay, Facebook, Netflix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, Staples Inc., Yahoo and YouTube.
2010-08-27

J. D. Salinger's toilet is put on sale on eBay for $1 million.
2010-08-20