Oops. Susan, didn't read far enough down before I replied. Sorry. Avery Todd On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Avery Todd <ptuner1 at gmail.com> wrote: > Just for the record, it wasn't my account. It was just something I ran > across that I thought might be of interest to some of you who use Paypal. > > Avery Todd > On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Susan Kline <skline at peak.org> wrote: > >> Steve, as I see it, the problem is this: >> >> Someone hacked Avery's iTunes password, but to pay for it with Paypal, >> they'd have had to somehow hack into his Paypal account as well. When I go >> to pay for something with Paypal, I have to sign in and use my password. If >> somebody got into Avery's Paypal account without his password, this is >> Paypal's problem. Unless, of course, Avery's iTunes password and his Paypal >> password were the same -- never a good idea. >> >> Susan >> >> At 03:50 PM 8/1/2008, you wrote: >> >> "Due to some lax security policies that Apple has thankfully since >> updated, someone was able to use my birth date to obtain my iTunes password, >> and get into my account. They then managed to use that information to give >> themselves a nice little gift of $450 worth of iTunes gift cards… courtesy >> of my PayPal account." >> >> Apple got paid for the gift cards. It was their security problem. Why >> would PayPal pay for this? >> >> Shouldn't we be bashing Apple instead of PayPal? >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20080802/6b9fe747/attachment.html
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