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And neither eBay nor PayPal allow me to paste a secure password from KeePassX. sigh Edit: I can now paste on eBay (not sure what went wrong the first time) but PayPal is still actively preventing pasting a new password.
The spin is atrocious. The big story is not the headline, that users must change passwords. The big story is that ebay leaked personally identifiable information. Naturally this is buried four paragraphs down. The database, which was compromised between late February and early March, included eBay customers’ name, encrypted password, email address, physical address, phone number and date of birth. Don't patronize me…
Holy crap, isn't that enough to do some social engineering and get a new credit card or something equally serious?!
> The company also said it has no evidence of unauthorized access or compromises to personal or financial information for PayPal users. PayPal data is stored separately on a secure network, and all PayPal financial information is encrypted. Ebay being hacked kind of scares the hell out of me because PayPal has my checking account information with direct access to withdraw funds. A hacker could rob me blind. Like seri…
I know it's not always practical for everyone, so I can't give it as general advice, but this kind of situation is exactly why I isolate my "real" checking account. My primary account (the one to which my paychecks are deposited) doesn't have a debit card, and I never use the account number. I have a different account that I use for online services like PayPal, and for recurring charges online that require a credit/d…
I have one checking account that my paycheck goes into, and I pay monthly/yearly recurring bills out of this account. There is nothing online for this account, the only way money gets out is that I get my bank to send somebody a check.
I set up a weekly auto-transfer to a separate account which my wife and I carry around debit cards for. This is for groceries, gas, and personal shopping stuff, including online.
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Doesn't that make it the perfect question? For someone to answer the question correctly, they have to demonstrate that they don't even need to do so, because they already know the thing you wanted to protect?
Along that reasoning... I'm from your bank. Please give me your account # and PIN.
Week 2: "We have observed some limited and negligible instances of credit card information being compromised that coincidentally happened to be linked to eBay accounts. We consider this purely coincidental and feel it is no cause for concern."
Week 3: "Oh god they took everything."
And neither eBay nor PayPal allow me to paste a secure password from KeePassX. sigh Edit: I can now paste on eBay (not sure what went wrong the first time) but PayPal is still actively preventing pasting a new password.
I can do that just fine, must be your browser interfering.
However on PayPal, when pasting I received a little tooltip-style popup saying something along the lines of "Please do not copy and paste passwords.", followed by their password criteria.
Pasting into other fields (including the login page password field) worked perfectly fine.
The spin is atrocious. The big story is not the headline, that users must change passwords. The big story is that ebay leaked personally identifiable information. Naturally this is buried four paragraphs down. The database, which was compromised between late February and early March, included eBay customers’ name, encrypted password, email address, physical address, phone number and date of birth. Don't patronize me…
Don't forget that it was nearly three months ago. Why weren't users informed immediately? Do I need to update my PayPal account too? (my email is the same, but both passwords are long and randomised so not too bothered). So now they know my email address and my home address - and my date of birth, always convenient. Oh and as someone pointed out, I have PayPal automatically linked to my eBay account. Great. Which phy…
P.S. I wonder if they were expecting a lot of resets, hence the redesign rollout?
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>> "PayPal went full retard." I'm not usually big on political correctness but you could so easily replace that phrase with something that's not taking the piss out of people.
I suppose I could. I was going for the "Tropic Thunder" line. But really, political correctness? Has anyone ever called an actually mentally handicapped person "retarded" in the past thirty years?