[CAUT] Paypal

[Avery Todd]

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?
>
>
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