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PayPal Rewards Hacker Who Discovers Its Vulnerability

PayPal admitted that someone discovered a possible severe security breach that could lead to the exposure of user passwords to a hacker. Alex Birsan, who discovered the breach, earned a bug bounty worth $15,300 for reporting the problem. The vulnerability itself was disclosed on January 8 and has since been repaired.In his public disclosure, Birsan wrote that this “is the story of a high-severity bug affecting what is probably one of PayPal’s most visited pages,” referring to the login...

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