E-Bay has some scheduled maintenance planned, but it left users in the dark, and losing money. As users tried to access their E-Bay accounts, they received incorrect password alerts. This is the 11th glitch of this nature this year.
Facebook encountered its own down time, leaving many desktop and mobile users in the dark Wednesday afternoon.
"Earlier today we encountered an error while making an infrastructure configuration change that briefly made it difficult for people to access Facebook. We immediately discovered the issue and fixed it, and everyone should now be able to connect," a spokesman said in a statement.
The downtime was about 20 minutes, which is an eternity in social media. When Facebook went down, Twitter was all a twitter about the outage.
When hackers targeted, and successfully compromised Home Depot's computer system, customer data may have been stolen from nearly all of Home Depot Inc's stores in the United States. The breach first surfaced on the website Rescator, where customer credit cards were listed according to store ZIP code. It is not yet clear how many customers were impacted.
Home Depot has not confirmed that a breach occurred, and is currently investigating if there has been a data breach.
Home Depot could be the latest in a string of retailers to have been hit by security breaches in the recent past. If confirmed, the Home Depot breach could be among the worst.
Home Depot has not confirmed that a breach occurred, and is currently investigating if there has been a data breach.
Home Depot could be the latest in a string of retailers to have been hit by security breaches in the recent past. If confirmed, the Home Depot breach could be among the worst.
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