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Years ago (2008?) I was able to get PayPal's customer support to tell me my password over the phone. Try that ;)
by chaps 6y ago
Years ago (2008?) I was able to get PayPal's customer support to tell me my password over the phone. Try that ;)
- jedberg 6y agoNo you didn't. PayPal has never stored passwords in plaintext. I know because I worked anti-fraud for PayPal, and even I couldn't get access to that database, much less see passwords, even though I had a list of passwords I was trying to verify that I had gotten from people who steal accounts.
- droopyEyelids 6y agowait. so you think a plain text db of customer passwords does exist? Or are you saying you couldn't access it because it doesn't exist
- dntrkv 6y agoIf he has the passwords, he could hash them and compare that against the entries in the DB. I think he's saying he didn't even have access to the DB of non-plaintext passwords.
- jedberg 6y agoIt doesn't exist. They were so secure about their passwords they wouldn't even let me check my password list against the database as an insider checking for fraud.
- chaps 6y agoCrap, you're right. Thanks for calling me out on that. It was ebay, not paypal. Think I was paying ebay through paypal at the time.