Online financial service PayPal has warned a small number of customers that they should be extra-vigilant against online scams, after their e-mail addresses were leaked on the Internet.
The subsidiary of Web auctioneer eBay said this week that BenchmarkPortal had not properly secured an online form for customers to opt out of a recent survey that PayPal had hired the company to perform. PayPal did not reveal how many e-mail addresses had been harvested using the flaw but called the breach ‘extremely limited.’