firstadopter
01-24-2005, 10:40 PM
Paypal <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1754013,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594">admitted today</a> that a security breach has compromised an unknown amount of email addresses to the internet. I've been getting phishing attacks for eBay recently and I'm ticked off that my private email address is out there for scammers and hackers to spam me. It's an address I've vigorously tried to hide for years.<br><br>
<em>PayPal spokeswoman Sara Bettencourt said the breach had been fixed and insisted that only a small number of users were affected. However, security experts say a malicious person with the most basic scripting tool could have exploited the bug to hijack a large list of legitimate PayPal e-mail addresses.</em>
<em>PayPal spokeswoman Sara Bettencourt said the breach had been fixed and insisted that only a small number of users were affected. However, security experts say a malicious person with the most basic scripting tool could have exploited the bug to hijack a large list of legitimate PayPal e-mail addresses.</em>