A hacker going by the name Chucky_BF has allegedly stolen details for 15.8 million PayPal accounts and is selling them on an internet forum at a bargain price of just $750 USD. The treasure trove of data, which is being stored in a TXT file, is said to be 1.1 GB in size. However, the authenticity of the PayPal data has not yet been confirmed.

You can see a screenshot of the offer in this social media post . According to the hacker, the PayPal passwords are available in plain text and the email addresses of these PayPal accounts originate from Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail, and various country-specific domains.

How the stolen PayPal data was acquired

As of this writing, the hacker hasn’t said where the data came from or how much of it is still up to date.

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