<div dir="ltr"><div>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. </div> <div><br>Avery Todd<br></div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Susan Kline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skline@peak.org">skline@peak.org</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div>Steve, as I see it, the problem is this: <br><br>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. <br> <font color="#888888"><br>Susan <br></font> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br>At 03:50 PM 8/1/2008, you wrote:<br> <blockquote type="cite">"Due to some <font size="2">lax security policies that Appl</font>e 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."<br> <br>Apple got paid for the gift cards.  It was their security problem.  Why would PayPal pay for this?<br><br>Shouldn't we be bashing Apple instead of PayPal?</blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div>