If I were a major multinational internet firm that had been hacked..

[lovingboth]

.. leading to a loss of customers' names, dates of birth, phone numbers, physical addresses, email addresses, and "encrypted" passwords, I would:

a) say something on the front page of the site; and

b) say something on the site's media centre press release page; and

c) say something on the site's announcements page; and

d) say something on the login page; and

e) say something on the landing page when someone does log in; and

f) say something in an email to every customer.

eBay has done none of those. It did tweet something though.

Comments

[lovingboth]

I did wonder if assorted media outlets had fallen for a hoax, but there's a statement on the US corporate site - this is the sort of thing that they have to report to their US stock exchange.

But, yes, this is staggeringly irresponsible behaviour.

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

It's also bloody hard finding the damn password change option!

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

I didn't find it remotely hard …