PayPal Warns Of Exposed Social Security Numbers In 6-Month Data Breach

PayPal has just disclosed a data breach that exposed sensitive user information, including social security numbers. From July 1st, 2025 to December 12th, 2025, a software glitch in PayPal Working Capital (PPWC) loan applications resulted in attackers gaining user personal information, including Social Security Numbers. While PayPal has since acknowledged and fixed the software error, as well as undone unauthorized PayPal transactions linked to it, the damage done to the users in question is sadly permanent, since that information is now in the hands of cyber criminals who will pass it around and attempt to use it ad nauseum. It's a pretty bad look for PayPal, though the backlash has been somewhat subdued so far.

The reason why the backlash has been subdued is most likely due to the very narrow scope of users impacted by ...