eCay Trade
| Primary URL | Location | Industry | ecaytrade[.]com |
Country
Cayman Islands
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Technology
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Profile
eCay Trade operates as an online classifieds marketplace and is known by the alias eCay Trade. The organization is headquartered in the Cayman Islands. It functions as part of the eCay Online Group, providing a digital platform for classified advertisements.
The service allows users to post, search, and respond to classified listings across various categories. Access to the marketplace is provided via the internet, enabling participation from individuals and businesses. As an online platform, it relies on user accounts that store personal information such as email addresses and passwords.
On August 28, 2015, the platform experienced a cybersecurity breach that compromised the email addresses and passwords of thousands of account holders. The breach involved unauthorized access to the underlying user data stored by the service. The incident affected a substantial number of users, though the exact count was not disclosed beyond the description "thousands".
The breach was publicly disclosed by the Cayman Islands Cyber Incident Response Team, which confirmed the unauthorized access. Details of the incident were reported by the Cayman Compass news outlet on the same date. The report highlighted that the compromised data included login credentials used to access the classifieds platform.
The organization was identified as the operator of the affected platform in the public disclosure by the Cayman Islands Cyber Incident Response Team. The incident is documented in publicly available sources as a cybersecurity breach affecting the eCay Trade platform. No additional quantitative details regarding the breach's impact or the organization's size are available in the cited sources.