When you own a caller specializing in online payments , the constant threat of hackers and phishing scheme is an inescapable part of the job verbal description . So it ’s firmly not to live a little schadenfreude in the fact that PayPal President David Marcus ’s credit wag entropy got cabbage recently and taken on a fleck of a shopping spree . Oh , dulcet irony .
Marcus tweeted about the problem before today , noting thatthe skimmingprobably happened sometime during his late visit to the UK .
My wit ( with EMV chip ) got skimmed while in the UK . long ton of fraudulent txns . Would n’t have happened if merchandiser accepted PayPal …
— David Marcus ( @davidmarcus)February 10 , 2014
The card had an EMV chip , which is supposedly more secure than the magnetic strip currently found in most US credit cards . So naturally , Marcus took the opportunity to secure PayPal ’s admittedly strong security measures . Of naturally , that does n’t intend PayPal has beenentirely withoutits own missteps .
The only way this could have been better ? Ifthe credit card had belonged to the CEO of a sealed , now notorious rebate retail chain . [ USA Today ]
https://gizmodo.com/last-months-massive-target-hack-was-the-heating-guys-1516926877
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