Potential mass fraud warning (online shop)

ElliorR said:
Yes but legislate that the company who's systems have been hacked have to pay the for new cards being issued.
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Why legislate .. under PCI-DSS the costs for the replacing cards can be passed down if the merchant has been negligent in their non-compliance ... along with big juicy fines and termination of the ability to accept cards at all ...
 
Tefal said:
Which i can get back later with a phone call.

Yep, infinitely better than being conpletley ****ed without cards.


Not to mention they investigate thousands and not many are ever affected.
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That is why I always have at least one card in my wallet that has never been used online and always have two different debit cards from two different banks with me.
 
Just had my credit card billed by Fasthosts hosting company. I had hosting with this company years ago and now I have registered several domains and paid for a years hosting.

I managed to log into my account on their website after resetting the password as it's been years and I notice that my account has my recent credit card details. I got this new card this summer.

How on earth did they get my card details? If there was a card on their account, it would be expired years ago. Today I got a silent call on the phone which I google the number and all the reports from people say they got the same silent call after they purchased a domain.

What is going on here. Should I contact fasthosts tomorrow to refund me or contact my credit card company.
 
Barclays got in touch with me 2 months ago and told me that I would get a new Debit card. I asked why and they said that there was some irregular activity going on. They never said who or what and I had not had any money stolen.
You posting this now makes sense.
I had used the card at the time at Euro car parts. So it's them that have been compromised.
Defo using cash there from now on or looking elsewhere.
 
You shouldn't be pointing fingers at specific companies as it's more likely that another payment gateway has been compromised like what happened a few years ago where everyone was pointing fingers saying that site A or site B had been hacked where it was because they used the same payment gateway and it was that that had been hacked.
 
Although not storing card details on a retailers system isn't a guarantee of security, this is why I was not too impressed to find out recently that OcUK use a system that stores your card details whether you like it or not :(

The only way to have them removed is via customer services, which was done promptly for me, but not what I expected to have to do.
 
Simon42 said:
Although not storing card details on a retailers system isn't a guarantee of security, this is why I was not too impressed to find out recently that OcUK use a system that stores your card details whether you like it or not :(

The only way to have them removed is via customer services, which was done promptly for me, but not what I expected to have to do.
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Really poor, but at least OcUK supports PayPal and Amazon Payments. :/
 
Firestar_3x said:
I don't want to directly name a company who may or may not of had a mass amount of card details stolen, reason being if this isn't true and it hurts business i could be in for legal trouble.
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Yes, because your real name is Firestar 3x and they'll use that to track you, just like in the movies and will hold your family to ransom and send you a video and stuff. :D
 
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pepp77 said:
That is why I always have at least one card in my wallet that has never been used online and always have two different debit cards from two different banks with me.
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Ah right so just one that has been used in hubdreds/thousands of ATMs and card readers, any of which could have been modified
 
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