Alert: PayPal account hacked 11/27/2012

[ancientfifer]

Hello Chiffers!
I just wanted to alert any of you with PayPal accounts to check your accounts and change your passwords. I awoke this morning to find that my account was hacked for $299.00 US last night. I have filed a claim and have acknowledgement from PayPal that they are investigating. It looks like the "seller's" account may have been hijacked as well to facilitate the fraudulent sales transaction, so I don't want to libel anyone unintentionally by including their name, or e-mail address.

I am curious if anyone else may have also had this experience in the last few days, or if this is an isolated event.

Best wishes!
Russ

[ytliek]

Hello,
I'm always leary of internet money transactions of any kind, period. I didn't have an incident in the past few days, however, I did have an incident with PayPal awhile back. I was new to whistling and new to PayPal (opened around same time) and merely opened in order to purchase some whistles. On a celtic website and upon ordering various items (not whistles) the company stated they would get back to me. Being new to PayPal I waited longer than the 45 days for transaction. The celtic company never got back to me and blocked my emails. I tried to file PayPal claim and they told me to kiss off as the 45 transaction period is up; there's nothing they can do. The money was lost.

I won't post the company's name, but, if you want it send PM. Scammers and hackers everywhere.

A big picture look at credit card fraud, thanks to Denny posting daily TED . In particular look at 3:30sec. Just two guys!
http://www.ted.com/talks/james_stavridi ... urity.html

[ancientfifer]

Update: Paypal "ruled in my favor" within 4 hours of my filing the complaint. The funds will be returned in 2-3 days. So that worked out well. But I did see that yesterday they had sent me a warning message that there was suspcious activity in my account, then locked my account, but still allowed the transaction Its on an e-mail account I check sporadically so I hadn't seen the message until after seeing the charge show up on my card account. Nonetheless, a happy ending. I hope no one else experiences this.

[ytliek]

Good to hear your issue was resolved favorably. Thanks for posting it.