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no one

Jun 16 2006, 11:31 AM

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A security flaw in the PayPal web site is being actively exploited by fraudsters to steal credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to PayPal users. The issue was reported to Netcraft today via our anti-phishing toolbar.

The scam works quite convincingly, by tricking users into accessing a URL hosted on the genuine PayPal web site. The URL uses SSL to encrypt information transmitted to and from the site, and a valid 256-bit SSL certificate is presented to confirm that the site does indeed belong to PayPal; however, some of the content on the page has been modified by the fraudsters via a cross-site scripting technique (XSS).
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/06/...tity_theft.html

jfirestorm44

Jun 17 2006, 02:48 PM

Well that's no good. I just used Paypal the other day to donate $20 dollar to this site and now you tell me this. So do you recommend closing my paypal account or can they only access my information when I'm actually using it?

Grinler

Jun 17 2006, 04:00 PM

This hole has been fixed. THis would only have affected you if you clicked on a specially crafted link and logged into your paypal account. if you clicked on the the buttons here or went directly to paypal you would not be affected.

http://news.com.com/PayPal+fixes+phishing+..._3-6084974.html

jfirestorm44

Jun 17 2006, 11:26 PM

okay that's good to know

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