Sci-Fi said:
Last time I used paypal and had my account confirmed with my bank account, which they require you to do now or they will limit your account, I had mine hacked and all my money stolen. Paypal would do NOTHING to help, they said my bank had to reverse the charges and give me my money back because they were the ones who processed the charges. Yet it was my Paypal that was hacked not my bank account and my paypal account was used to funnel the money out through them. They wouldn't take responsibility for it at all. Their customer service sucks. If you use paypal be warned.
Moral of the story (I'm guessing here) is use a unique, impossible to guess password for Paypal. Both aspects are important.. this HAS to be a password you use for no other account.
I'm guessing that's how you got hacked, you probably used your Paypal password for another site/forum or something, where the security is low.