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2025-08-20 10:15
The well -known online payment operator was targeted by a hacker attack, they are reported by cybersecurity services. The login of millions of PayPal users has been preying the criminals, but the company denies that any attack would take place in the past months.
In Darkweb, serving cybercriminals to trade stolen information, there was a proposal to sell a database of nearly 16 million PayPal accounts. The package contains emails and passwords of user and related links to specific services. The author of the news claims that the data comes from May 2025 and demands $ 750 for them.
Users in danger?
Fortunately, the data structure does not indicate that they come directly from PayPala systems. Most likely, the source of the leak are the so -called Infostealers, i.e. malicious software for stealing data from user computers. You can unknowingly download them by clicking on suspicious links or by opening attachments in e-mails, and then harmful programs work in the background, downloading passwords, confidential information, payment card numbers, etc.
In the case of PayPal users, stolen data can be used to log in to other websites where the same e-mail address was used. For this reason, it is recommended to change the password to the PayPal account and setting two -component authentication.
PayPal denies the rumors
In the message sent Cybernews, PayPal's representative denied that in recent days the operator's systems would fall to the hacker attack. It was assured that the disclosed data relate to the 2022 incident, in which 35,000 accounts leaked. Cyber security specialists do not confirm the authenticity of the database, because the sample in Darkweb does not allow them to be verified, but the author of the entry claims that the package comes from this year.
