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eBay Outage Halts Sales, 1,300 Reports, DDoS Claim

4/27/2026

Summary

eBay Faces Outage

eBay outage Sunday, April 26, 2026, began around 3:30 PM ET and disabled search, login, checkout and the API.
Downdetector logged 1,300 reports by 10:30 PM ET as the API stayed down for four hours while users saw descriptions, failed cart adds and no search results, halting bids.
Hacktivist group 313 Team claimed a DDoS attack, which eBay has not confirmed, leaving sellers unable to end auctions early, risking fees or lower prices.

Summary

eBay Outage

Quoted search queries on eBay produced empty result pages, while unquoted searches failed less severely.
Users saw blank seller descriptions on every listing, which eventually triggered timeout errors.
Downdetector recorded over 800 problem reports before 5 p.m. EST, showing rapid escalation.
The malfunction impacted both eBay’s website and mobile app, with no restoration timetable provided.

Summary

313 Team Claims

The 313 Team, an Iraqi Islamic Cyber Resistance group, claimed the April 26, 2026 cyber-offensive on eBay’s infrastructure, announcing it days before Q1 2026 earnings release and raising concerns.
Elliott Management pressured former CEO Devin Wenig in 2019 over site glitches, while CTO Mazen Rawashdeh, promoted that year, remains in charge despite failures.
eBay has not issued any comment or remediation timeline for the outage, mirroring its silence during earlier glitch controversies.

History

Historical Context

eBay’s 2014 breach exposed 145 million accounts, one of many large-scale leaks that together compromised 4.5 billion records in the first half of 2018. After Elliott Management pressed the firm in 2019 over site glitches, a claimed DDoS on 26 April 2026 echoed the earlier disruption, underscoring persistent cyber-risk and prompting renewed investment in platform resilience.

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eBay Faces Outage

eBay outage Sunday, April 26, 2026, began around 3:30 PM ET and disabled search, login, checkout and the API.
Downdetector logged 1,300 reports by 10:30 PM ET as the API stayed down for four hours while users saw descriptions, failed cart adds and no search results, halting bids.
Hacktivist group 313 Team claimed a DDoS attack, which eBay has not confirmed, leaving sellers unable to end auctions early, risking fees or lower prices.

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