[CAUT] Paypal

Avery Todd ptuner1 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 2 07:04:50 MDT 2008


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?
>>
>>
>
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