Nearly 16 million PayPal users’ credentials have allegedly been posted for sale on the dark web.
PayPal denied any recent data breach occurred, stating the allegations relate to a 2022 security incident, however, hackers claim the breached info includes email addresses and plaintext passwords obtained in May 2025.
Hal Turner Opinion
I think everyone should cancel their PAYPAL accounts because my experience with Paypal has lead me to conclude they are a disreputable company.
I had PAYPAL for years. Never any trouble with the account. But in January of 2021, PAYPAL ceased doing business with me over my reporting of Election Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election. They told me my reporting of such fraud was "risky."
At the time, I had about eight hundred (800) subscribers to this website, who used PAYPAL as their method of payment. PAYPAL cut off all those subscribers and stopped making those payments to me.
I scrambled to get a Merchant Account to accept credit and debit cards, then had to email all those PAYPAL subscribers explaining that PAYPAL had stopped paying their subscriptions, and asking them to return with a Credit or Debit Card. Some did. Many did not.
What PAYPAL did, damn near put me under, financially. Thank God many of my subscribers came back.
Any company that would do to someone, what PAYPAL did to me is, in my opinion, disreputable.
I think everyone should CANCEL their PAYPAL account - especially now that their data has apparently been breached (again) and all user names and passwords are reportedly for sale on the Dark Web.
Whoever stole that data would apparently now have the ability to use all those PAYPAL accounts, possibly stiffing YOU with the bill!
