No you didn't. PayPal has never stored passwords in plaintext. I know because I worked anti-fraud for PayPal, and even I couldn't get access to that database, much less see passwords, even though I had a list of passwords I was trying to verify that I had gotten from people who steal accounts.

Crap, you're right. Thanks for calling me out on that.

It was ebay, not paypal. Think I was paying ebay through paypal at the time.

wait. so you think a plain text db of customer passwords does exist?

Or are you saying you couldn't access it because it doesn't exist

It doesn't exist. They were so secure about their passwords they wouldn't even let me check my password list against the database as an insider checking for fraud.

If he has the passwords, he could hash them and compare that against the entries in the DB.

I think he's saying he didn't even have access to the DB of non-plaintext passwords.