Interesting 'security warning' from @paypal. Here's the thing: 1 the noticed some 'unusual activity' part is pretty scary. Pls tell me more? 2 asking for a unique password is good. But, I'm already using a pwd manager and 100% confident it's unique, so what's the real issue?
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If I wasn't 100% confident it was a unique password I would give them kudos for potentially monitoring other password dumps and proactively alerting impacted customers, but that isn't the case. So I'm just confused.
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I should have specified, this alert was not an email, it was displayed after logging into the actual PayPal site.
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Replying to @_mwc
I got the same message after I used an accounting tool to manage my finances and it used my PayPal credentials to log in as me. I dodged changing my pw for a few months and finally gave in. So it’s likely your creds were used successfully to log in from an untrusted device.

Jan 3, 2019 · 6:51 AM UTC

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Replying to @bilcorry
That would be concerning since I haven’t auth’ed other accounts and use a password manager.
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Could be it's triggered in other ways, I've only seen it with the scenario I outlined. Changing your password is probably a good idea then. And you might want to turn on "SecurityKey" which is just SMS 2FA: paypal.com/myaccount/setting…