Ebay asks all users to change passwords

By Reuters

May 21, 2014 08:24 AM EDT

An eBay logo is projected onto white boxes in this illustration picture taken in Warsaw, January 21, 2014. (Photo : Reuters)

(Reuters) - EBay Inc is asking all its users to change their passwords, according to a message posted on the website of the company's online payment unit PayPal.

The messages on PayPal's community and press website did not say why the passwords needed to be changed. (r.reuters.com/gaf59v)

EBay and PayPal could not be immediately reached for comment.

(Reporting by Soham Chatterjee; Editing by Savio D'Souza)

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