Re: Anyone heard of Nexon.net?

Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:
In article <8sopf397bjrb4bgnom12dribj2ogiok2vp@xxxxxxx>,
Chris F <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:36:14 GMT, Jon Ross <askme@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This morning I have awoken to find 5 payments from my Paypal account to Nexon.net.

Looking at it, it is a gaming site but I have never heard of them and certainly not made any payments. I have changed my PP password and started an incident report.
hmm, no one's signed up to that maplestory thing have they? i know
i've heard of that, and i think it lets you "buy" stuff ingame.

Paypal and eBay were recently hacked, although they successfully kept the story out of the mainstream media. eBay is trying to play it off as the result of careless response to phishing, but it was actually some sort of low-level database dump that got posted online. I'm wouldn't be surprised to find that account information was already being abused like this. Sympathies, Jon.

-KKC, who finds himself disappointed with the latest Growlanser game.

That is the only explanation I can think of. My PC is virus/spyware free and I haven't actually typed my PP password in years.

I've never played Maple Story and nobody else knows the password for my PP account.

.

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