[Barefoot]

I recently went into my Paypal account to update credit card information. I haven't used Paypal in five years. My credit card information expired years ago and I hadn't bothered to update it.

Under "authorized users" in my account, there was a name I didn't recognize, accompanied by an address in Algeria. I talked to Paypal Security who admitted it was quite possible that this could happen. I'm glad my credit card information had expired or I'm sure the hacker would have been using my card. I immediately deleted my Paypal account.

Oh, by the way, the security guy at Paypal said every internet user should use a different password for every financial account, banks and credit cards. And each password should be changed monthly. If you use the same password for all your financial accounts, once a hacker gets a password match with a user ID, (using their sophisticated methods), they will have access to all accounts.

The world gets more complicated all the time. (Don't flame me, I'm just repeating the info the Paypal Security guy gave me).