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In 2002 I made a paypal account with my yahoo email address. I attached my bank account to it, the same one I still use.

I haven't used that paypal account or that email address in years. A while back I realised the folly of this and removed as much information as I could from the account.

But, what if I'd just forgotten about it? Now anyone who registers my (common) yahoo email, attempts a password reset on the popular websites, can drain my bank account.



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