Showing posts with label PayPal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PayPal. Show all posts

Thursday 11 December 2014

150 Million PayPal Accounts In Danger of Hijacking

A vulnerability that would have enabled a hacker to completely bypass the authentication system in PayPal has been patched, resulting in a $10,000 bounty for the white-hat that found it. Worth every penny, too: the flaw put 150 million PayPal customers in danger of having their accounts hijacked with a low-effort, simple gambit.