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Paypal Weirdness

Today Paypal won’t let me log in. Because I’ve forgotten my password. Now, I’m damn sure I haven’t but after several attempts I give up and go through the “forgotten password” procedure. One of the features of this procedure is that you must change your password – re-using the existing one is not allowed. Naturally, I can’t set the password I want because its the same as the existing one, thus proving I have not forgotten it.

WTF?

And this is not the first time its done this to me.

This entry was posted on Monday, February 20th, 2006 at 16:58 and is filed under Rants, Security. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Comments

  1. I’ve had that same experience on more than one occassion as well. No idea what’s up (or confused) at paypal though.

    Comment by cat — 21 Feb 2006 @ 14:54

  2. Likewise. It happened to me just yesterday, in fact. I wonder if clearing Paypal cookies and trying again would have any effect.

    It was obvious that the problem was on PayPal’s end, because when I filled in the new password field with what I thought was the old one, it confirmed it with ‘you can’t change you password to the one currently on the account.’

    Bum.

    Comment by RoUS — 24 Feb 2006 @ 15:56

  3. Hah – tada – just experienced the same phenomenon but luckily had your blog entry in mind 😉

    Comment by Erik Abele — 27 Feb 2006 @ 1:32

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