If you have your ear to the ground when it comes to tech news and information then you will probably have heard about the huge data security breach that eBay experienced last week! There has been quite a lot of hype over the event and millions of online users have started thinking more about their data security, both online and offline. Over 145 million customers became the victims of a cyber attack where names, telephone numbers, home addresses, emails and passwords were compromised. There was no mention of whether or not financial details were exposed leaving most affected users quite unsettled. Some public statements have been calling this particular breach a train wreck – and that is precisely what it is!
Of course there has been a major public outcry and various investigations have been entered into with eBay coming under a large amount of scrutiny in the past few days. While they did post information on the cyber attack on their corporate website, Ebayinc.com, nothing was made mention of on the actual Ebay.com website and very few customers had even received an alert numerous days after the attack! A great fear of many was that the security of their PayPal accounts was also compromised.
In the wake of such a great data security breach, many have been clamouring to tighten up their network and computer security. Companies and individuals have been investigating various security and backup software and options to ensure that they too don’t become a victim of such a terrible security breach.
Those who do cloud backups already have taken to looking into the level of security offered too. One way to ensure that your data is safe and secure and to ensure that your personal information and data is not at risk is to back up to the cloud with Soteria Cloud Backup.