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] ...

PayPal fined $2 million for cybersecurity lapses in late 2022. Data breach exposed sensitive information, including Social Security numbers. New York's Department of Financial Services led the ...

Those issues, CyberNews said, put PayPal users at risk of account takeovers, albeit there were no claims the vulnerabilities had been exploited in the wild or that accounts had been taken over.

But, in PayPal's case, some have pointed out that if a tip sender files a dispute after tipping someone, things can get ugly for the recipient—who now has to pay a $20 dispute charge, plus ...