PayPal will pay a $2 million civil fine over cybersecurity failures that led to the exposure of customers’ Social Security numbers in late 2022. Data were exposed after PayPal made changes to existing data flows so it could make the forms available to more customers. Dates of birth and Social Security numbers belonging to customers of the San Jose, California-based digital payments company easily accessible to cybercriminals for about seven weeks. The fine was for violating the financial services department’s cybersecurity regulation, adopted in 2017. PayPal has upgraded its security, including by implementing CAPTCHA. Was it fair to for company to be charged ?