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  • Credit Card Problem

    From Rick B.@21:1/5 to Hactar on Mon Mar 21 21:41:45 2016
    XPost: alt.fan.cecil-adams

    [email protected] (Hactar) wrote in news:[email protected]:

    In article <[email protected]>,
    Osmium <[email protected]> wrote:

    <[email protected]> wrote in message
    news:[email protected]...
    On Monday, March 21, 2016 at 4:08:12 AM UTC, Greg Goss wrote:

    <Snip>

    Fifteen years later, my (new) credit card company phoned me ans asked
    me about whether I had made recent purchases from Victoria's Secret.
    Since I hadn't, they offered to reverse the charges and send me a new
    card. Target insisted that their Canadian stores weren't included in
    the hack that stole a few million credit cards, but the timing was
    right and I didn't use that card for much in those days.

    Some 40 million credit and debit cards is a tad more than a few million. >>
    40 million cards in a country with a population of 36 million?

    Including minors, shut-ins, and cash-only spenders? Yeah, I'll need to
    see a cite on that 40e6 number.

    40 million appears to have been either the US count or the total North
    American count, so that was from a population of over 300 million.
    My contemporary cite doesn't specify:

    http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/12/sources-target-investigating-data-breach/

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  • From Hactar@21:1/5 to Osmium on Mon Mar 21 10:18:59 2016
    XPost: alt.fan.cecil-adams

    In article <[email protected]>,
    Osmium <[email protected]> wrote:

    <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
    On Monday, March 21, 2016 at 4:08:12 AM UTC, Greg Goss wrote:

    <Snip>

    Fifteen years later, my (new) credit card company phoned me ans asked
    me about whether I had made recent purchases from Victoria's Secret.
    Since I hadn't, they offered to reverse the charges and send me a new
    card. Target insisted that their Canadian stores weren't included in
    the hack that stole a few million credit cards, but the timing was
    right and I didn't use that card for much in those days.

    Some 40 million credit and debit cards is a tad more than a few million.

    40 million cards in a country with a population of 36 million?

    Including minors, shut-ins, and cash-only spenders? Yeah, I'll need to
    see a cite on that 40e6 number.

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