RE: [Full-Disclosure] Small vulnerability in Canadian Pay Pal SecretQuestion

["Dan Clements" <dan@cardcops.com>]

FYI...

>This mini-white paper outlines how hackers and carders migrate or hopscotch
>between online accounts.
>These sites are discussed; Amazon, Paypal, Earthlink, and Bank of America,
>among others.
>
>http://www.cardcops.com/account_takeover.htm






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From: full-disclosure-admin@lists.netsys.com
[mailto:full-disclosure-admin@lists.netsys.com]On Behalf Of Rob Adams
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 12:07 PM
To: j tole
Cc: hostmaster@paypal.com; full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Small vulnerability in Canadian Pay Pal
SecretQuestion


j tole wrote, in part:

>One of the [Paypal] secret questions you can select when
>setting up your pay pal account is to enter the last 4
>digits of your drivers license. The problem here, is
>that the last 4 digits of most any canadian drivers
>license are the month and day that you were born. For
>example of the last 7 digits of my drivers license
>were 8-40726 then I would be born on july 26th, 1984.
>
>J. Tole a.k.a. ph1zzle
>jtole2003@yahoo.com
>
>

For what it is worth, here in Illinois the last five digits encode your
year and date of birth, and gender (the first seven encode your name).
For example, a male, born 5/5/1963 would have a license that ends:
    63129

See http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/numbers/dl_us_shared.html for
details.

Rob Adams


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