{"id":957735,"date":"2025-08-26T12:32:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T07:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=957735"},"modified":"2025-08-26T12:32:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T07:02:36","slug":"hackers-claim-16-million-paypal-accounts-exposed-company-denies-new-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/26\/hackers-claim-16-million-paypal-accounts-exposed-company-denies-new-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers claim 16 million PayPal accounts exposed; Company denies new breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A dataset allegedly containing login details of nearly 16 million PayPal users has surfaced on a popular hacking forum, sparking concerns among customers. The information reportedly includes email addresses, plaintext passwords, and linked URLs that could be exploited for credential-stuffing attacks or identity theft.<\/p>\n<p>Hackers claim the data was stolen in May 2025, but PayPal has denied reports of a fresh breach. In a statement, the company said the information is likely connected to older security incidents and malware-driven credential theft rather than any new vulnerabilities in its systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dataset allegedly containing login details of nearly 16 million PayPal users has surfaced on a popular hacking forum, sparking concerns among customers. The information reportedly includes email addresses, plaintext passwords, and linked URLs that could be exploited for credential-stuffing attacks or identity theft. Hackers claim the data was stolen in May 2025, but PayPal has denied reports of a fresh breach. In a statement, the company said the information is likely connected to older security incidents and malware-driven credential theft rather than any new vulnerabilities in its systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,51,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-it-2-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}