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#Anonymous advises public: clear out & close your #paypal account before #anon launches #OpPayPal It's a good idea to heed this warning.

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I just transferred all of my funds to my bank account. I was too scared to "possibly" lose that much money through this crazy shit. I advise you guys to do the same.
 

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Damn. What about your bank? I mean my bank is connected to me paypal can they take finds from that?
 

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^ i dont think they can...... this shit just got real though(cue bad boys 2 gif)
 

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wtf? Im confused
 

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who is anonymousIRC? and are they planning on doing something because all i really saw from the tweets was a boycott
 

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yea...idk

is my bank account at risk?
 

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just transferred all my money to my bank account.......
 

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Hacking 101 - social engineering. The mere threat of doing something, is probably worse than actually doing something in this case. It's caused ebays stock and valuation to drop a good amount so far. IMO, that's what this is about more than anything else.
 

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Hacking 101 - social engineering. The mere threat of doing something, is probably worse than actually doing something in this case. It's caused ebays stock and valuation to drop a good amount so far. IMO, that's what this is about more than anything else.

Meh, they haven't made a lot of empty threats, and paypal hasn't been the epitome of security.
 

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aww yeah.
 

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Hacking 101 - social engineering. The mere threat of doing something, is probably worse than actually doing something in this case. It's caused ebays stock and valuation to drop a good amount so far. IMO, that's what this is about more than anything else.

Meh, they haven't made a lot of empty threats, and paypal hasn't been the epitome of security.

correct ............is this the same set of dudes from the ps3 hack?
 

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My money is still there.
 

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im still confused as to whether this is a real threat
 

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I'm sure it is a real threat, whether anything actually happens is another question.
 

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The way the system works, you wont lose your money, just some time to retrace and get it back. However, what would end up happening, is PayPal would have to tighten security to the point, to where it is not optimal to use for many transactions, therefore the cost to use the service will go up, and the remainder will have to pay higher fees eventually.

The worst case scenario would be losing money, and not having the time/resources to get it back. But that would only happen if PayPal doesn't restore neutrality.

For those who don't know the backstory to these threats, it originated with the WikiLeaks attacks by the government. People then funded wikileaks to stay free and afloat, but PayPal(biggest service provider for their donations) decided to cut them off, and for the twentieth time in so many months, eBay/WellFargo decided to not be politically neutral with it's customers. Anonymous(which is not a group or organization) had warned them, and after long attempts to try and persuade as well as threaten PayPal, they are now declaring a social war of sorts, which includes a great deal of boycotts, cyber attacks and negative publicity.
 

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Anonymous is your friend :shifty:
 

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fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck i dont feel like closing it. I have no money in it though, but my CC's are attached
 

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Glad I never had my bank account connected with paypal.
 

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