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eBay's Korean Unit Apologizes for Hacking Incident

Via Telecoms Korea.

U.S. auction giant eBay's Korean unit apologized Thursday for a hacking incident that lead to leaks of private information of more than 10 million users of its service.

Park Joo-man, president of Internet Auction, said in an e-mail apology sent to affected users that the hacking of its website in early February lead to the leaking of information of some 10,810,000 users as of its latest tally with the police.

The company, after a joint investigation with the police, said that more than 90 percent of the information outflow was of names, IDs and resident registration numbers. Credit card and passwords were not likely included in the leak, it added.

posted by Fergie @ 4/17/2008 02:19:00 PM