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What we found
Cash App: FA fired Block employee walked out the door and kept downloading confidential reports on 8.2 million Cash App Investing users — names, brokerage accounts, por...
In December 2021, a former Block employee downloaded reports on 8.2 million Cash App Investing users — names, brokerage accounts, portfolio values, stock trades — after their employment ended. Block failed to revoke access credentials. Not disclosed until April 2022. $15 million settlement.
PayPal: FPayPal bought coupon browser extension Honey for $4 billion in 2020 and turned it into a surveillance tool installed on 20 million browsers.
PayPal's Honey browser extension tracked all browsing activity across every website. In December 2024, YouTuber MegaLag exposed that Honey performed cookie stuffing — silently replacing content creators' affiliate cookies with its own, stealing commission revenue. The scheme generated an estimated $1.4 billion in revenue for PayPal. Honey lost 8 million of its 20 million users after the exposé. In January 2026, Rakuten Advertising removed Honey from its affiliate network.
Venmo: DA BuzzFeed reporter found the President of the United States on Venmo in under 10 minutes and mapped his entire social circle — family, grandchildren, senior...
In May 2021, BuzzFeed News found President Biden's Venmo account in under 10 minutes, mapping family members, senior White House officials, and their social networks. Transactions and friends lists were public by default. Until 2021 there was no way to hide your friends list.