Smuggler Archive
Thread: someone sliced our visa/master card....
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Gloomandglory
Sat Jun 18, 2005 10:41 am
#1
wow....40 million credit card accounts!!! did you all see the news?
/slice visa?!?
AvramV
Sun Jun 19, 2005 3:16 am
#3
ROFL??? Yeah I have a Visa and a MC...not ROFL right now.
Message Edited by AvramV on 06-19-2005 04:16 AM
-Firestar-
Sun Jun 19, 2005 6:39 am
#4
Actually, I'm on a small island and never get to watch news. Elaborate?
maxtheusher
Sun Jun 19, 2005 6:49 am
#5
Elaboration initiated.........
40 million credit card accounts, approximately half of which were Visa cards, a little less than half were Mastercards, and the remaining were divided amongst Amex, Discover, and then probably some cards nobody's ever heard of were exposed to a security breach at a payment processing company.
the good news is apparently only about .4% of cards exposed are "high risk" The bad news is they don't really know which ones. So anyone with a Visa or Mastercard, and less so AmEx and Discover, should be watching their statements.
That goes for Canadians that use Visa too
40 million credit card accounts, approximately half of which were Visa cards, a little less than half were Mastercards, and the remaining were divided amongst Amex, Discover, and then probably some cards nobody's ever heard of were exposed to a security breach at a payment processing company.
the good news is apparently only about .4% of cards exposed are "high risk" The bad news is they don't really know which ones. So anyone with a Visa or Mastercard, and less so AmEx and Discover, should be watching their statements.
That goes for Canadians that use Visa too
LTZweigg
Sun Jun 19, 2005 7:26 am
#6
At least we all have an alibi. No way we could have done it with the current slicing system.
maxtheusher
Sun Jun 19, 2005 7:44 am
#7
Ha, we'd get ONE of the numbers off of ONE of the cards, and it would be WRONG.
maxtheusher
Sun Jun 19, 2005 8:04 am
#9
I'd be more worried about what I spent all that imaginary money on 
Myrbard
Sun Jun 19, 2005 5:05 pm
#10
Waiting for it on the news...Ican see the headlines...
"40 million credit card accounts were hacked...in other news, a recent serge in pies and beer sales create a shortage in 48 out of 50 states. Police believe that these two cases might be related in some way."
Jaguarrr
Mon Jun 20, 2005 4:46 am
#11
Myrbard wrote:
Waiting for it on the news...Ican see the headlines...
"40 million credit card accounts were hacked...in other news, a recent serge in pies and beer sales create a shortage in 48 out of 50 states. Police believe that these two cases might be related in some way."
"An unknown buyer bought out all jedi accounts on e-bay, SOE annoucent a drop of active accounts by 5%. In a related incident SOE-customers all over the world have been found tied up with a toy-lightsaber up their...."
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