PayPal (PYPL) has agreed to pay a $2 million fine after an investigation by New York's Department of Financial Services uncovered significant cybersecurity lapses that left customers' sensitive data ...

If you’ve ever shopped online, sent money to a friend, or run a small business, chances are you’ve used or at least considered using PayPal. With millions of users worldwide, PayPal is one of the most ...

A simple software bug gave strangers access to Social Security numbers for half a year. PayPal’s Working Capital loan application accidentally left customer data wide open from July through December ...

PayPal has at least temporarily shut off two-factor authentication for the PayPal mobile app after a security researcher found a way to bypass that second factor. "These [two factor authentication] ...

On Tuesday, the New York State Department of Financial Services announced a $2 million settlement with PayPal over violations of the state's cybersecurity regulation related to a December 2022 ...

PayPal security is under pressure. In May 2025, a PayPal data breach exposed user login details through an open database. It wasn't a cyberattack, but the information was still out there, unprotected.

PayPal has filed a patent application for a novel method that can identify when "super-cookie" is stolen, which could improve the cookie-based authentication mechanism and limit account takeover ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here’s where it gets interesting: PayPal’s systems weren’t actually “compromised” in the traditional sense. Bad actors didn’t need ...

PayPal has notified customers that it discovered a breach in its PayPal Working Capital service that could have led to fraudulent transactions. The personal information of a “small number of customers ...

PayPal users are facing a new wave of highly convincing scam emails that appear to confirm expensive subscription purchases they never made. Security researchers say criminals have figured out how to ...