PayPal Left PII Exposed for Half a Year

About this episode

The episode discusses how PayPal inadvertently exposed sensitive data of small business owners for six months.

Usually data breaches happen from an attacker breaking in, but sometimes an organization inadvertently leaks their own data, PayPal did just this with the most sensitive data about small business owners and it sat on the internet for 6 months. Sources: https://pastebin.com/hxqJeJey

People in this episode

Host: Chloe Thonus

Topics covered

• data breach
• cybersecurity
• privacy
• small business
• data exposure

Keywords

• PayPal
• data breach
• PII
• small business owners
• internet exposure

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: PayPal

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