Update : At 10.10pm the account was suspended
This might make you lose faith in the company you’ve handed your credit card number to. The Twitter account of the UK arm of PayPal, @PayPalUK has been hacked.
Screenshots of the hack are here, which will no doubt be deleted once PayPal regain control over their account. Full timeline of the hack is at the bottom of this post:
First to change was the avatar, biography and URL:
Retweets
At around 6pm this evening GMT the account started to retweet negative customer services messages it had received in the past few days:
The first actual message came at 8.19PM:
Soon after came the language:
And then the motive behind the hack:
Then the taunts:
Full timeline of hack
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