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Paypal accounts are getting abused en masse for unauthorized payments

zdnet.com

8 points by 1on0 6 years ago · 3 comments

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usr1106 6 years ago

Paypal confirmed fraudulent transactions (in other words a security breach) and refunds them, but denies to give details how many customers are affected or whether and how the hole has been closed. https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/apps/paypal-sagt-nicht-wie-e... (in German)

tyingq 6 years ago

Interesting. Sounds like a race to find the exploit, since it's mostly just German accounts being hacked now. I imagine the bug isn't limited to just German accounts.

  • 1on0OP 6 years ago

    yes exactly and until now it's also not completely clear how to prevent this from happening.. (I'm affected as well)

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