PayPal Data Breach Exposed User Information for Five Months

The payments firm reported that personal user data, including Social Security numbers and dates of birth, was accessible due to an undetected vulnerability for several months.

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Terms & Concepts
  • Data breach: An incident where unauthorized individuals access or disclose confidential information from a system or database.
  • PayPal: A global digital payments platform that allows users to send and receive money online.
  • Social Security number (SSN): A U.S. government-issued unique identifier used for taxation and personal record tracking.