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Jason Levine
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As wifi4milez See Profile said, having your CC number stolen doesn't mean that you entered it into an insecure site. The store's database can be hacked. A malicious worker can obtain and sell the credit card information. In many cases, the person whose card number is stolen might not have done anything wrong.

A year or so ago, my wife was trying to pay my Discover card and found out that it had been disabled by Discover. Apparently, BJ's Wholesale Club had a security breach of some sort (not involving an online store) and all of the credit card numbers used in the club (even in the physical store) during a period of time were potentially compromised.

BJ's informed the credit card companies. Discover Card took the preventative measure of cancelling the cards and reissuing new numbers. Besides being upset with them for not communicating this action to me, I was glad that they did it. Better to deal with having to wait for the new card than to deal with constant fraudulent charges.
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said by Jason Levine See Profile:

As wifi4milez See Profile said, having your CC number stolen doesn't mean that you entered it into an insecure site. The store's database can be hacked. A malicious worker can obtain and sell the credit card information. In many cases, the person whose card number is stolen might not have done anything wrong.
Exactly. My mom's account got hit (thankfully she had less than $5) like 5 times in 10 minutes by some wankers in Belize. She doesnt even have a computer,but yet someone got her account info and printed themselves a card. it can happen to anyone
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