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Title: oh shit, did my paypal account just get hacked?
Post by: Beardo on November 30, 2008, 06:38:41 PM
I logged onto paypal to print a packing slip and my whole page was in chinese. I was freaked so I reset my browsing history and went back to paypal which was in english. Then when I logged in my whole account page was in chinese. WTF is going on. 
Title: Re: oh shit, did my paypal account just get hacked?
Post by: cloudwalking on November 30, 2008, 06:40:43 PM
yep if your paypal language got changed that's supposed to be one of the biggest tipoffs. i knew someone who got their account stolen, their paypal was set to russian language when they logged in.

get in touch with paypal asap!
Title: Re: oh shit, did my paypal account just get hacked?
Post by: Beardo on November 30, 2008, 06:44:03 PM
Oh shit. Ok, I just took the following precautions.

-My bank accoutn is no longer linked to my paypal account
-I changed my paypal passwords and my security questions
-I changed my email that was linked to my account and I changed the password for the old email address.

Is this enough?


The weird thing is that no money was missing from my account.

Title: Re: oh shit, did my paypal account just get hacked?
Post by: Rman on November 30, 2008, 06:51:06 PM
It happened to me once, too.  That's why I don't ebay anymore.  What kind of security do they have?
Title: Re: oh shit, did my paypal account just get hacked?
Post by: Beardo on November 30, 2008, 06:52:42 PM
It happened to me once, too.  That's why I don't ebay anymore.  What kind of security do they have?
Yeah, I recently sold a game on ebay and it is really pissing me off. I'm debating on weather I want to get rid of paypal or not. I use it outside of ebay.
Title: Re: oh shit, did my paypal account just get hacked?
Post by: duckman2000 on November 30, 2008, 08:28:01 PM
There's really no benefit to using Paypal, but now they have made that the only acceptable way to charge/pay on Ebay, at least for sellers without existing credit card solutions.