Financial Info Leaked in Newegg Data Breach

[lcpiper]

Paypal is safe. When you use Paypal, your credit card/banking information is not exposed/sent to a merchant; they simply tell Paypal how much to charge you and Paypal handles everything behind the scenes so all Newegg gets is a token. In fact, as a matter of good security, I always use Paypal whenever I have the option to because Paypal is infinitely more secure than some random small time e-commerce website with limited resources for IT security.

I lean toward agreement with damicatz on this. PayPal acts as a trustworthy proxy and they have never ever screwed me on anything.

In fact, PayPal is even being accepted by some retail merchants like Home Depot if I remember correctly. You don't even need a card with you.

 

[Domingo]

The funniest thing about all of this is that my recent RTX order was apparently the first time I've ordered from Newegg since 2013. Between Microcenter and Amazon I never never needed to. The fact that they had all of those cards that kept re-populating is the only reason I even looked to them this time.