PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months

cmehdy 8 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> The company now offers affected users two years of free three-bureau credit monitoring and identity restoration services through Equifax, which require enrollment by June 30, 2026.

How tasteful.

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flipped 4 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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Insanity an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

So from the Article they claim:

"PayPal has since rolled back the code change responsible for this error, which potentially exposed the PII. We have not delayed this notification as a result of any law enforcement investigation."

That does little to explain the 2 month-ish delay in disclosing it. I presume they could have disclosed _at least_ that account data was leaked even if the underlying bug wasn’t yet closed?

Obviously without disclosing the nature of the bug in that case.

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malfist an hour ago | parent [-]

It's one of those "suspiciously specific denials"

They didn't delay the release because of law enforcement investigation, it doesn't say they didn't delay the release. There's a whole host of reasons besides "law enforcement investigation" to delay an embarrassing release, including "I don't wanna"

	▲	sidewndr46 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The quote is: "We have not delayed this notification as a result of any law enforcement investigation" The obvious example here would be if the NSA or other agency that isn't law enforcement led the investigation. But further abuse of the English language reveals a different conclusion. This was not delayed as a result of any law enforcement investigation. It could have been delayed as a result of a specific law enforcement investigation. Furthermore, the word "result" implies that it is tied to the conclusion of said investigation(s). It could in fact have been delayed because of a pending law enforcement investigation.