A Hacker Hacked PayPal Account Two Times in one Day!

Famous online money transfer platform PayPal is investigating a case, in which the account of a PayPal user was compromised. The hacker was trying to use compromised account for sending money to a dead ISIS hacker. This account belongs to an independent security researcher whose name is “Brian Krebs”.

The hacker easily bypass the two factor authentication process and logged in to the account of Brian Krebs. On the Christmas Eve 2015, Hacker used an unauthorized email account two times.

During the investigation of this case a spokesperson of PayPal told, In this case the standard procedures of company were not followed but we are not confirmed whose fault was it. So he did not clear whether PayPal or Brian Krebs was at fault.

Spokesperson stated,” We are feeling sorry because this situation arose. All the funds of Mr. Brian remained secure.  We do not want this type of problem in future so we are reviewing this case.”

Brian came to know about it, when he notice initially unauthorized changes in email. After that he was sure that his PayPal account will be monitored by hacker when he will use it. After some time his account was again compromised and hacker use the same email account. This time hacker changed the password of account and was trying to send money to an ISIS hacker. This ISIS hacker was killed in a drone strike few weeks ago. After that hacker shut down the account.

Source: scmagazine.com