PayPal Account Got Hacked! / myLot

Philippines

October 2, 2022 7:35am CST

A few days ago I decided to access my PayPal account. It's been years since I last opened it. As far as I can remember I only had about $3 on it. I was shocked to find out that I can no longer access it. After a few tries of resetting my password, I succeeded in logging in. The only information that was left the same was my name and the rest are all very unfamiliar to me. There's also nothing left in my balance. I ended up creating a new account. Good thing, all the banking details of the account are no longer active and the cards have already expired.

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@DaddyEvil (137460)

• United States

3 Oct 22

I see you've already gotten good help with the problem so I feel free to say what I was thinking while reading your discussion starter... It serves you right for abandoning us for so long!

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@GooglePlus (3830)

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3 Oct 22

Well getting account hacked which is a bank is scary. Indian doesn't store amount in PayPal for more than 24 hours. But for rest they can have money in their account. I still wonder how much work that person did to get $3

I wouldn't have logged in my office system for 210 Rupees ($3)

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@GooglePlus (3830)

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3 Oct 22

@DaddyEvil I don't have a laptop. I feel PC has more life then a Laptop. You know I am stil using a PC which is 9 year old. Only thing I have upgraded is motherboard as due to Electricity fluctuation. I had SMPS and motherboard impacted.

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3 Oct 22

@DaddyEvil

It is... As this motherboard is also 5 years old I think....

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Go Ask Alice / Admin

@GoAskAlice (5827)

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2 Oct 22

Don't forget to change your PayPal address here in 'settings'

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cutelilbastart

@hexeduser22 (7418)

• Philippines

2 Oct 22

Thank you for the reminder. I updated the email address earlier today.

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@GooglePlus (3830)

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2 Oct 22

@hexeduser22 Make sure you have 2 way auth is enabled with this account. They allow you to have username password and then send an OTP on your registered mobile number.

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@AngelicOne (80)

• Jamaica

5 Oct 22

Sorry about that. I used to get several notification about changing my password for Paypal and this went on for years. Yesterday I changed the password and was able to log in to use my $10 to pay for reading a good book on Dreame. I have been very slack in working at Mylot but with law school and everything I will definitely try to at least do 20 posts or responses per day.

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cutelilbastart

@hexeduser22 (7418)

• Philippines

6 Oct 22

@DaddyEvil can you recommend some ebooks for me too?

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@DaddyEvil (137460)

• United States

6 Oct 22

@hexeduser22 That same site works in every country.

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@DaddyEvil (137460)

• United States

6 Oct 22

@AngelicOne I can give you a site that will let you download 5 free ebooks per day or, if you give them your email addy, they will let you download 10 free ebooks per day. The site is b-ok.cc

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Anna

@LadyDuck (471969)

• Switzerland

2 Oct 22

Did you report the problem to PayPal? You should as they could see who hacked your account and you would recover your money.

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cutelilbastart

@hexeduser22 (7418)

• Philippines

2 Oct 22

I couldn't contact them because it always redirects me to authentication failed. There was no option to chat with support. Only way to get support is to call their US hotline and that's going to cost me a lot since I live outside of the US.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (471969)

• Switzerland

3 Oct 22

@hexeduser22 I am sorry you do not arrive to contact them. I called their local hotline a couple of times in the past and it works very well here.

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cutelilbastart

@hexeduser22 (7418)

• Philippines

3 Oct 22

@LadyDuck wish me luck

I need to know how much information the hacker got from my account.

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@GooglePlus (3830)

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2 Oct 22

Did you tried to complain to Paypal and tell them the situation and try to solve it. This is serious problem, if there is flaw in system they need to look into it.

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cutelilbastart

@hexeduser22 (7418)

• Philippines

2 Oct 22

I did. So far, I got nothing but I will try again later. Thank you

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M Cheung

@Beestring (14672)

• Hong Kong

2 Oct 22

Recently, Paypal uses two-factor authentication system. In addition to password, a one-time verification code is required to login.

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cutelilbastart

@hexeduser22 (7418)

• Philippines

2 Oct 22

There were emails last July that I thought was just Phishing emails so I didn't bother myself with those emails. Somebody set up the two-factor for me without me knowing

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Jenaisle

@Jenaisle (14078)

• Philippines

3 Oct 22

That's sad to hear. It's good they haven't accessed your bank account. I try to type the specific URL of Paypal word by word when I log in, because one misspelled word and it opens to fake site. I also don't allow my password to be remembered by my computer.

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cutelilbastart

@hexeduser22 (7418)

• Philippines

3 Oct 22

I'm not sure how the information leaked because it's been years since I last login. I even disregarded the notification emails from PayPal thinking it was some kind of Phishing email

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