Was your credit card stolen???

[Furiously]

Got an new card and a notice that "your account number may have been illegally obtained as a result of a merchant database compromise...." was wondering if it was my local smoke shop or an online game as that's pretty much all I use this card for. Anyone else???

[Pennilenko]

Got an new card and a notice that "your account number may have been illegally obtained as a result of a merchant database compromise...." was wondering if it was my local smoke shop or an online game as that's pretty much all I use this card for. Anyone else???

My wife and i got new cards sent to us from the bank with a letter that claimed the same thing. Which online game do you think is responsible?

[gryeyes]

Do the cards require you to activate them at all? And did you call your bank to confirm with a human? If my card had been compromised i would expect a telephone call ASAP. It could be the bank itself as well. I know for a fact they either sell your information or are extremely slack with security regarding it.

[Merusk]

Got an new card and a notice that "your account number may have been illegally obtained as a result of a merchant database compromise...." was wondering if it was my local smoke shop or an online game as that's pretty much all I use this card for. Anyone else???

My wife and i got new cards sent to us from the bank with a letter that claimed the same thing. Which online game do you think is responsible?

Well, since it's you two, the number of hacks that have been occurred and the general culture of the game; I'd go with Eve.   Glad I didn't reup now.

[Furiously]

Well Eve, steam, coh, and Sony would be the games in the past 6 months. But there might be some fry's and assorted stuffs too.

[Chimpy]

I got a replacement card the other day myself. The letter said that even if I did not activate the new one, the old one would be deactivated 14 days from the date of the letter or something to that effect.

Worst thing was the "there was a problem with the number you entered" the machine gave me, it transferred me to a person who tried to hawk their "Credit Protector" crap on me.

[gryeyes]

Entire process sounds fishy.

[Furiously]

I got a replacement card the other day myself. The letter said that even if I did not activate the new one, the old one would be deactivated 14 days from the date of the letter or something to that effect.

Worst thing was the "there was a problem with the number you entered" the machine gave me, it transferred me to a person who tried to hawk their "Credit Protector" crap on me.

Citibank tried pulling that shit on me too...

[schild]

Call the bank, generally they have reasons to shutting down a card. They should give you the reason.

[schild]

IRONICALLY, I just logged in to check if some adjustments were made to my card, looks like the bank is issuing me a new one too. God. Damnit.

Edit: This has nothing to do with all of ya'lls cards, I promise.

[Viin]

If the bank is issuing cards out of hand I would expect it's because *they* lost info and aren't sure if your info was in the batch that got lost. If it was fishy stuff on your account specifically they would lock your card immediately and call you. Ask me how I know.

[NiX]

Ask me how I know.

Spy.

[Furiously]

I'm hoping there is a story here about how some on-line game can't even keep your credit card info safe...

Come to think of it. I'm surprised any of them can...

[JWIV]

Jumping on the bandwagon - I had a new card issued to me about 2 weeks ago by my bank.   

[FatuousTwat]

No issues here, yet.

[Furiously]

So...Warcraft???

[UnSub]

Did anyone who had their card replaced happen to click this link? 

[schild]

Did anyone who had their card replaced happen to click this link? 

Not funny, chump.

[Yegolev]

Hey.  Listen.  Do you guys watch the news?  Major banks are shitting themselves left and right.  Previously they were merely underhanded crooks with reptilian grins, but now they are descending to frightening lows in an attempt to get monies from you.  Also mergers and shit, I'm not surprised that some data might have been lost.  I am fairly suspicious that Amex has recently had some, uh, changes to their IT support and I'd be terribly surprised if the major CC companies were not also on the bandwagon of slashing staff and costs in the name of the GEC.  Even the profitable companies are doing this.

As for stolen cards, had that happen last year and the card companies will indeed lock your card down and contact you pretty quickly once odd charges start showing up.  It might not hurt to retain all paperwork in case there's a class-action to come of any undiscovered shenanigans.

[Nevermore]

I"m going to do with some guy at the bank lost a laptop with a few million credit card account numbers on it.

[Righ]

I'm going to go with some guys at the bank thought it would be amusing to issue new cards to anybody who had not yet accepted their new terms and conditions. Read the fine print, because if you're somebody without a lot of revolving card debt the latest thing is to get you to agree to monthly charges. If you do have debt, down where they usually advertise other bank services on the statement, they'll slip in some fine print that says that unless you call to cancel the card, you agree to the new interest rate of arse rape percent.

[Ard]

As far as cards getting reissued, one of the major mastercard providers had millions of users' information stolen from them like 2 months back.  The new card might have been a result of that.

Edit:  my bad, 4 months ago, heartland got raided, and at least my provider really dragged their heels at reissuing.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/credit/2009-01-21-visa-mastercard-credit-security-breach_N.htm

[Yegolev]

I'll second Righ's point.  Read your shit.

Maybe tangental, my mortgage was just sold to BoA.  I'm going to have to read more papers lest they slip in something asinine, and I hate reading.  Stupid banks.

[Signe]

Make sure they actually have a copy of the mortgage.  Maybe you can get out of your whole mortgage all together!   

[Yegolev]

For real.  I don't want it to float around until the Chinese government finds it.

[veredus]

When me and my wife got new cards about 2 months or so ago it was due to a merchant services company dropped the ball and banks were just issuing new cards to any of their customers whose cards were processed by this specific merchant service company. I don't remember all the details but if I remember correctly it was a fairly major merchant services company so they handle a lot of different companies. It was annoying too since our cards got shut down before the new cards arrived. Nothing like "declined bitch" while at the store and a line full of people behind you.

[Stormwaltz]

I recently had to have my BoA credit/debit reissued. A couple of bogus "websites" got a hold of my CC numbers somehow. It may have been due to an online purchase I made that day, it may have been unrelated. No way to tell, sadly.

[gryeyes]

I recently had to have my BoA credit/debit reissued. A couple of bogus "websites" got a hold of my CC numbers somehow. It may have been due to an online purchase I made that day, it may have been unrelated. No way to tell, sadly.

I had to make several BoA accounts over a period of 6-7 months (long story) I noticed that within 30 days each of these fresh accounts email address was receiving phishing attempts mentioning specific account information (account #,name). So the next time i made an account I used a fresh hard drive,made no purchases with the account and STILL received phishing attempts that included information nobody but BoA should have known.