PayPal: Hacker access to almost 35.000 accounts
According to various media, hackers had access to almost 35.000 PayPal accounts. The provider was not hacked, but the accounts were compromised via credential stuffing. This means that users were too lazy to use different passwords, didn't replace their leaked passwords and didn't use 2-factor authentication. The passwords were then simply tried out successfully by the hackers at PayPal. A successful hack and the stupidity of users are often confused. To access the PayPal accounts, the hackers filtered customer details and passwords from various other hacks of companies or password database providers and linked them to the…
