Thread: Paypal hacked!

Originally Posted by BeBerlin

Non sequitur. PayPal Security Tools would have solved your problem (as far as technology currently can) before it even started.

Remember, username/password is never secure enough.

Quite true; I should have known better. I was using a random 10 character sequence of upper/lower case letters, numbers and special characters and thought that was good enough.
I've taken steps that should prevent it from happening again.
And Paypal was very efficient about the situation, they have already issued full credit to my account.

Thats good to hear!

I doubt that it is the password though.
The attack starts elsewhere. Maybe with a simple port scan.

Originally Posted by gratewhitehuntr

there are three true friends
An old wife.
An old dog.
And ready money.

I'm very happy with my young wife,
and my old dog died.
Is that why I never have any money ready?

Originally Posted by Utopian

and my old dog died.

I'm sorry to hear that.

Yes, Word of advice, it happened to me. Make your Ebay and Paypal passwords different. I did get my money back. Paypal is good that way. I was actually hacked by a Paypal employee, can you believe it. When I spoke to them, all they could say was, Well, it happens. We can't prevent it. The problem is, you can't get around Paypal, really. Sometimes, you just have to use it.