PayPal loan system error exposes user data for six months
A code error in PayPal's loan application exposed users' personal information and Social Security numbers for six months. Some accounts saw unauthorized transactions and financial losses. PayPal disclosed the breach and reset passwords.
Key facts
- Affected organization
- PayPal
- Incident type
- Data breach
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Exposure of users' personal information and Social Security numbers, and some unauthorized transactions
- Cause / method
- Code error in the loan application
- Location
- United States
If your data was exposed
Exposed dataNational ID number
Timeline
- PayPal disclosed that an error in its loan application had exposed user information for six months.
- It emerged that financial losses had occurred and that passwords had been reset.
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