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PayPal Allowing Me To Use Two Different Passwords To Login

• eyeareque 12y ago
  Are your passwords similar in the first few chars? ex: thisismypassword12345 thisismypassword54321 I've heard of password hash issues (amazon had this problem) where they only used the first 8 chars of a password when generating the hash that they stored.
  • karlhadwen 12y ago
    Afraid not. My passwords are ones that I made up and just kind of got used to typing, without giving too much away as to what they are...they're completely different and just words/numbers that have no meaning really.
    • eyeareque 12y ago
      That is strange. You should report it to google's bug bounty program so that they can triage it or get it to a group that can fix it. (I'm not sure of another avenue to get through to a person there.)
      • karlhadwen 12y ago
        Indeed it is. I'm afraid Google only have their own bug bounty program and I think PayPal no longer have one. In terms of where to go from here I've no idea.
        • eyeareque 12y ago
          If you asked the google bug bounty program about it, I'm sure they'd either answer for youtube, or send you in the right direction. While unlikely, I wonder if it was some kind of hash table collision. If you change your password again that might solve the issue if that was the root cause (a guess).