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1,500 PayPal credentials for sale in pirate eShop

Charlee Gothard

Charlee Gothard

21 February 2013 • 1 min read

Proxy server access to user accounts sold for cash

More than 1,500 credentials for PayPal accounts are on sale in an eShop-style website set up by cybercriminals. The site, discovered by Webroot's Danco Danchev, is selling 1,543 PayPal account d...

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