PayPal recently disclosed a data breach that affected customers’ personal information and led to fraudulent transactions. Exposed information included names, email addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, and business addresses combined with SSNs. What is more problematic is that according to this, this breach might have been a thing for about six months.
Ensar Seker, CISO at SOCRadar:
“This incident is a classic example of how “application logic flaws” can be just as damaging as external hacks. When sensitive financial workflows like loan applications are misconfigured, attackers don’t need sophisticated malware, they simply exploit business logic errors. The six-month exposure window is particularly concerning because it suggests monitoring and anomaly detection controls were either insufficient or not tuned to detect misuse at the application layer.
What stands out here is the downstream fraud. That means the exposed data was not just leaked, it was operationalized. Financial platforms must treat every internal workflow as an attack surface, especially those connected to credit, lending, and identity verification. Continuous validation, red-team testing of business processes, and behavioral fraud analytics are critical to prevent these quiet but highly monetizable exposures.”
Chris Hauk, Consumer Privacy Champion at Pixel Privacy:
“This data breach exposes how a coding error in an online application can expose customers’ data to hackers. Unfortunately, the breach exposed valuable information about PayPal customers, including business details, including the Social Security Numbers of those affected. Affected customers should closely monitor their credit lines and accounts, especially staying alert for new accounts. Hopefully, PayPal will offer some type of assistance for these customers to assist them in keeping track of their credit and financial accounts.”
Now I have had a look at my PayPal account and I don’t see anything unusual. And I strongly suggest that anyone with a PayPal account do the same as given the length of time that this was out there, the possibility that you might have been affected exists.
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PayPal Pwned…. And They May Have Been Pwned For Months
PayPal recently disclosed a data breach that affected customers’ personal information and led to fraudulent transactions. Exposed information included names, email addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, and business addresses combined with SSNs. What is more problematic is that according to this, this breach might have been a thing for about six months.
Ensar Seker, CISO at SOCRadar:
“This incident is a classic example of how “application logic flaws” can be just as damaging as external hacks. When sensitive financial workflows like loan applications are misconfigured, attackers don’t need sophisticated malware, they simply exploit business logic errors. The six-month exposure window is particularly concerning because it suggests monitoring and anomaly detection controls were either insufficient or not tuned to detect misuse at the application layer.
What stands out here is the downstream fraud. That means the exposed data was not just leaked, it was operationalized. Financial platforms must treat every internal workflow as an attack surface, especially those connected to credit, lending, and identity verification. Continuous validation, red-team testing of business processes, and behavioral fraud analytics are critical to prevent these quiet but highly monetizable exposures.”
Chris Hauk, Consumer Privacy Champion at Pixel Privacy:
“This data breach exposes how a coding error in an online application can expose customers’ data to hackers. Unfortunately, the breach exposed valuable information about PayPal customers, including business details, including the Social Security Numbers of those affected. Affected customers should closely monitor their credit lines and accounts, especially staying alert for new accounts. Hopefully, PayPal will offer some type of assistance for these customers to assist them in keeping track of their credit and financial accounts.”
Now I have had a look at my PayPal account and I don’t see anything unusual. And I strongly suggest that anyone with a PayPal account do the same as given the length of time that this was out there, the possibility that you might have been affected exists.
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