Here is why I won't register my bank account. I keep things limited to my small credit card. Maybe PayPal won't INTENTIONALLY release information (no guarantees on that) but this stuff does happen: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2011/06/17/pei-lulzsec-personal-internet-accounts-584.html Facebook, PayPal logins released by hackers The hacker group Lulz Security is claiming it released log-in information for 62,000 private internet accounts Thursday, including Facebook, PayPal, dating sites, Xbox Live and Twitter. The list is mostly American accounts but includes hundreds of Canadians, including a CBC journalist from Prince Edward Island, and employees of all three levels of government, including provincial public servants in Alberta, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island and at least one municipal worker in Whitehorse. Who's on the list CBC reporter Laura Chapin pored through the list and found more than 100 email addresses ending in .ca in the top sixth of the list, including: * Federal government workers from Service Canada, Passport Canada, and Public Safety Canada. * Provincial government workers in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Alberta, including at least one from the P.E.I. Department of Justice and Public Safety. * Municipal government workers from several cities, including Whitehorse. * Dozens of personal addresses. Canadians may also be included among the email addresses that don't end in .ca. The list shows that the most common password is 123456, which shows up almost 600 times. Another very common password is "romance." Other countries whose citizens were hacked include the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil.
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