EdenWeb
Member
This is interesting. Luckily enough Pay Pal refunded my money within minutes and it was a small amount of cash. Any thoughts?
Here's the timeline.
Bank phones me to tell me that my credit card *may* have been comprimised and they were issuing me a new one. Details were sketchy (or they couldn't say exactly what details they had) but they finally told me that a business I had bought from recently may have been 'comprimised'. The last 3 businesses I spent money on were komplett, google and an Irish hosting company.
I get the new credit card and log the new card details with PayPal
This morning I get a confirmation email from an online store regarding a purchase through PayPal. Normally I wouldn't pay this any attention or put it down to phishing but they list my account confirmation password as an actual password that I use for PayPal!
That's pretty much it. I've changed my password now and everything is sorted. I'm a little unsettled though as to how exactly they got a password
that I normally use. I am guessing that they somehow hacked direct into my PayPal account.
Any ideas? I am fully Virus and Spyware proof here so I don't think they were key logging etc. Incidentally, the PayPal password was the same used for one of the 3 businesses used above so I am kinda thinking that they were hacked themselves or breached maybe?
Here's the timeline.
Bank phones me to tell me that my credit card *may* have been comprimised and they were issuing me a new one. Details were sketchy (or they couldn't say exactly what details they had) but they finally told me that a business I had bought from recently may have been 'comprimised'. The last 3 businesses I spent money on were komplett, google and an Irish hosting company.
I get the new credit card and log the new card details with PayPal
This morning I get a confirmation email from an online store regarding a purchase through PayPal. Normally I wouldn't pay this any attention or put it down to phishing but they list my account confirmation password as an actual password that I use for PayPal!
That's pretty much it. I've changed my password now and everything is sorted. I'm a little unsettled though as to how exactly they got a password
that I normally use. I am guessing that they somehow hacked direct into my PayPal account.
Any ideas? I am fully Virus and Spyware proof here so I don't think they were key logging etc. Incidentally, the PayPal password was the same used for one of the 3 businesses used above so I am kinda thinking that they were hacked themselves or breached maybe?