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15 million accounts of data on PayPal?That is behind the alleged leak By T-Online, MHO 20.08.2025 Reading time: 2 min. PayPal access data is offered for purchase: Experts doubt the authenticity of the data.(Source: BihlmayerFotography/Imago-Images pictures) Reading reading 0:00 0:00 News Share Article A hacker allegedly offers access data from millions of PayPal accounts for sale.But how real are this data?What users can do now. A stranger offered an extensive data record with alleged PayPal access data for sale in the Darknet.As the IT specialist portal "HackRead" reports, the user, called "Chucky_BF", demands only $ 750 (644 euros) for a collection of 15.8 million email addresses and passwords. The data record called "Global PayPal Creditial Dump 2025" is said to be 1.1 gigabytes and user data from different countries worldwide.According to the seller, the information is available in plain text and, in addition to the registration data, also include URL addresses for various PayPal services. However, the authenticity of the advertised data remains questionable.According to its own statements, "HackRead" has examined samples of the material and identified both valid accounts and test and fake accounts.Such a mixture is quite common in stolen databases, the report says. The expert Troy Hunt, founder of the "Have i Been Pwned" platform, expressed doubts about a direct PayPal hack on the platform x, reports the IT magazine "Golem".PayPal definitely does not save any passwords in plain text, argued Hunt.Instead, the data could have been collected by so-called info-manager malware.These are malicious programs that read out access data stored on infected computers. Recommended external content X We need your consent to display the x content integrated by our editorial team.You can have this (and with it all other X content on t-online.de) with one click and deactivate again.X-content always indicates I agree that external content is displayed.This means that personal data can be transmitted to third -party platforms.More on this in our data protection information. The seller indicates May 6, 2025 as the date of origin of the data.This suggests that current access data from this year could be included in the collection, reports "HackRead".So far, PayPal has not publicly commented on the offer. Users should do that now Regardless of the authenticity of the data, PayPal users should take preventive measures.This includes changing the current password and activating a two-factor authentication.It is particularly important to use an individual password for every online service.