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Group 10 Ebay Find a details relating to the major hack listed above at the end

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Group 10 Ebay

Find a details relating to the major hack listed above at the end and make a short presentation

Explain what happen – where, when, how, what

Explain the details of breach

Explain the gain from the breach (was it money, credit card number, etc.).

Were the hackers identified for their if so provide details (age, country of origin, where they committed the hack)

Were the hackers tried for their crimes, what were they charged with and if so what was the ruling

What policy recommendations could have been put in place to prevent this from occurring

What policy recommendation should be in place now

What would be the consequences if this happened again?

Recommended sites: http://krebsonsecurity.com/ & https://usa.kaspersky.com

Group 10

Find a details relating to the major hack listed above at the end and make a short presentation

Explain what happen – where, when, how, what

Explain the details of breach

Explain the gain from the breach (was it money, credit card number, etc.).

Were the hackers identified for their if so provide details (age, country of origin, where they committed the hack)

Were the hackers tried for their crimes, what were they charged with and if so what was the ruling

What policy recommendations could have been put in place to prevent this from occurring

What policy recommendation should be in place now

What would be the consequences if this happened again?

Recommended sites: http://krebsonsecurity.com/ & https://usa.kaspersky.com

Explanation / Answer

Ebay Hack:

This was 4 months back the massive data breach in the e-bay website which left more than 100 million registered users under an hacked situation. This was an vulnerability test but still it was quite a big and massive data breaches running in wild from long time.

Details Of Breach:

Hence, this is what the exploit encountered recently in e-bay website.

About The Researcher

The security researcher was from Egypt named Yaseer.H.Ali. As, he is an security researcher as soon as he came to know about the exploit he reported to Ebay and the exploit was patched and now the website is running fine with it can be never done to the website.

Thanks to the researcher.

Consequences:

The consequences of the exploit would be very immense and disturbing if it would have been exploited in the wild. It would have resulted in declaring many wrong things to the group.Some of them are stated below:

Hence, these are the consequences that would have happened if it would have been reached to many hacking groups.

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