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U.S. payment service provider PayPal announces that it will cut around 2,000 jobs, about 7% of its workforce, citing the "challenging macro-economic environment".
2023-02-1

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

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

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

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

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

The infamous hat worn by Princess Beatrice at the 2011 Royal Wedding has been sold on auction site eBay for £81,100.01. Funds raised from the sale will go to the charities UNICEF and Children in Crisis.
2011-05-22

A national high-tech crime team in The Hague arrests a 16-year-old male they accuse of disrupting MasterCard and PayPal websites. Both companies previously cut off donations to the WikiLeaks website.
2010-12-9

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