Microsoft GitHub project reward function no longer supports PayPal payment after leaking 35000 user data

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Coje_He for lead delivery! CTOnews.com January 26 news, Microsoft GitHub official blog recently issued a short statement, announced that from February 23, 2023, GitHub Sponsors project reward function will no longer support PayPal payment method.

Sponsors will no longer be able to reward developers or organizations through PayPal, and GitHub recommends that sponsors update their payment methods to use credit or debit cards. GitHub officials did not give any further explanation.

In addition, users who have rewarded developers with PayPal will receive an email reminder.

Neither Microsoft GitHub nor PayPal responded to the incident, with Hacker News users reporting that the breakdown in cooperation could be due to security issues, or negotiations between the two companies broke down, such as PayPal's withdrawal fees could be too high, or "it could be PayPal's virtual currency money laundering problem."

CTOnews.com previously reported that PayPal revealed on January 18, 2023 that the company was attacked by a cyber attack in December 2022, revealing 34942 personal information of users.