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One possibility comes to mind.
Your PayPal userid is an email address. If you tell someone the email address that you use for PayPal, they could conceivably use a computer program to generate and try passwords until the program identifies the correct password. Once they have the correct password, they have access to your PayPal account.
However, if PayPal locks you out after x number of login attempts, then the computer generated attempt to hack your account would fail. Does anyone know if PayPal will lock your account after x number of failed login attempts?
Even if your PayPal account gets locked and you have to reset it, the hacker could try again after you have unlocked the account. This could go on for days or weeks until they have hacked the account.
Is there some piece of the puzzle I'm missing?
Note: I just checked the PayPal website and noticed that they offer an optional security key for increased protection.
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Last edited by ccomt; 10-23-2009 at 04:26 PM..
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