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Originally Posted by taming
I completely isolated PayPal from other accounts, used a machine randomized password 9 characters (mix of symbols, numerals, letters, both upper and lower case) long, and my PayPal account was used by someone else for an item shipped to someone in a different country. PayPal made it good, but now I delete my credit card and add it in each time I make a purchase. As soon as the charge goes through, I delete the card again.
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A strong password is definitely recommended but it will help very little if the computer is compromised with a key-logger. If you want to get really secure you should use something like IronKey for sensitive data.
When it comes to deleting the card it's not a bad idea, but wouldn't it make it useless for shopping where the business require a confirmed PayPal address. This confirmation takes a few days to go through with PayPal.