eBay evokes a data access 145 million customers

  Hackers who managed to penetrate the eBay network in late February and early March had access to data on about 145 million customers, the company said , which could be unprecedented in scale piracy .

  The company's online business previously Wednesday urged its customers to change passwords after revealing a database containing names, encrypted passwords , email addresses , dates of birth, postal addresses and phone numbers had been forced by hackers .

  An eBay spokeswoman , Amanda Miller , said Wednesday night that the passwords were encrypted and that the company had no reason to believe that the hackers were able to decipher the code to scramble .

  "There is no evidence of impact on eBay customers ," said the spokesman. " From what we know , they have not decrypted passwords because it is not easy to do. "

She said that hackers had access to 145 million files they copied " much " .