If you've bought anything at a Hannaford or a Sweetbay store in the last three months and paid with your credit or debit card,
you could be in trouble. Between December 7 and March 10, someone tapped into their credit card authorization datastream. The blackhat stole 4.2
million credit card numbers. Some of those have already seen illicit activity. The Hannaford corporation
apologizes for the inconvenience.
posted by Class Goat
on Mar 17, 2008 -
27 comments
The guy over at
Make Your Nut is facing a dilemma I've wondered about myself: what to do about the security risks that are inherent in the many RFID-chipped credit and ATM cards that banks are so keen on issuing today? There's a
lot of evidence out there that indicates that the highly personal information these cards (and the new
US passports as well) carry can be stripped away by a thief with a little motivation and access to relatively low-cost equipment. You can go with the nifty
RFID-blocking wallets (discussed
here previously), or, according to some, you could just
grab a hammer.
posted by shiu mai baby
on Apr 30, 2007 -
26 comments
How can a credit card company fool you? Let me count the ways. When Brad Kehn received his first credit card from Capital One Financial in 2004, it took him only three months to exceed its $300 credit limit and get socked with a $35 over-limit fee. But what surprised the Plankinton, S.D., resident more was that Cap One then offered him another card, even though he was over the limit -- and then another and another.
posted by storybored
on Dec 10, 2006 -
104 comments
Dispelling Some Myths About Credit Cards. In case you missed this post (via
Kuro5hin), as this is an excellent explanation of how to stay debt free and things you need to know about owning a credit card. As a first time card holder, I found this post to be really, really useful. Anybody have any bad credit card stories?
posted by Keyser Soze
on Aug 22, 2003 -
45 comments
Pentagon busily ruining the credit ratings of service personnel. "Hapless" military personnel are ordered to use a government-issued credit card for travel expenses, then submit for reimbursement. But the reimbursements (and even paychecks) frequently come late, making the soldier unable to pay the credit card bill -- thus branding them as "delinquents", "credit risks" and even causing their wages to be garnished.
"U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan have found themselves stranded in the desert without a dime because their credit was suddenly cut off, according to a May 29 report in the
Military Times, leaving families behind in a nasty Catch-22: Swallow the debt, or borrow more money to pay the bills so their credit wouldn't be ruined."
It truly gives one the warm fuzzies to see that our government and military leaders give our service personnel the respect they deserve.
posted by chuq
on Aug 20, 2002 -
48 comments
Visa in Financial Trouble... Can't buy a clue This takes the cake. Visa is announcing a new Animated Logo with a press release. This animated logo (with sound!) will be played when ever someone makes a wireless purchase with their visa, alerting everyone within earshot of what you are doing. In addition to the animated logo they are staking claim to the newest buzz word to make executives sound stupid: U-commerce.
[via
camworld]
posted by DragonBoy
on Jan 3, 2001 -
16 comments
