I didn't expect them to come forth and accept it. If it's an employee mistake, and not a standard broken process, they can erase the tracks.
PayPal Denies Providing Payment Information to Twitter Username Hacker
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Re: PayPal Denies Providing Payment Information to Twitter Username Hacker
#32Alternative option, thief has an insider at PayPal, or even worse, works at PayPal.
But PayPal is probably just trying to cover their ass.
Re: PayPal Denies Providing Payment Information to Twitter Username Hacker
#33Perhaps the cracker is actually employed at PayPal for real? :) This thought amuses me, since it's a scenario with no leaks outside the circle of PayPal employees, yet it gives the opportunity to the bad guy to gain the info necessary for the deed.
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#34As if they would say if they were :-)
Re: PayPal Denies Providing Payment Information to Twitter Username Hacker
#35What's interesting is in the original "i got hacked" post[0]. The email from the hacker says that he called paypal and posed as an employee. That may not be tough to do, i.e. if you call a call center, select the wrong department and request an internal transfer, it is quite possible that the person receiving the call would not be able to distinguish between an internal call or a customer call. So if the hacker told…
When I was in a call centre (10 years ago) they would log all calls regardless of origin and us telemonkies had no control over it. I don't know how long they were stored though, I imagine they were purged on a regular basis.
Re: PayPal Denies Providing Payment Information to Twitter Username Hacker
#36Alternative option, thief has an insider at PayPal, or even worse, works at PayPal. But PayPal is probably just trying to cover their ass.
I'm not a PayPal fan but reading how he supposedly obtained the digits, I immediately thought it was bullshit.
An insider seems likely, and it doesn't even have to be at PayPal. Most companies where you use your credit card either have your email, or could figure it out using your name / address.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Godaddy.
I'm waiting for the day that Godaddy buys Twitter and then is acquired by PayPal. At this point the nexus of evil will be mainly concentrated around one company. It would make a good acquisition target for EMC.
Did I miss something - why are Twitter evil now?
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm waiting for the day that Godaddy buys Twitter and then is acquired by PayPal. At this point the nexus of evil will be mainly concentrated around one company. It would make a good acquisition target for EMC.
Did I miss something - why are Twitter evil now?
I'd tell you, but I can't fit my explanation into less than 140 characters.
Re: PayPal Denies Providing Payment Information to Twitter Username Hacker
#39I didn't expect them to come forth and accept it. If it's an employee mistake, and not a standard broken process, they can erase the tracks.
If it's possible for employees to be able to make such a mistake, that's a standard broken process. It should not be possible for them to reveal the last four no matter how badly someone wants them to and how clever their social engineering skills. It shouldn't be possible from a technical perspective, not from a "we told employees not to do this" perspective.