Posted on 12/21/2013 8:48:52 AM PST by Dallas59
Just under 2 days before I came out; paid cash.
M doesn’t like Copper, or the Confederacy. Thus winged by that Yankee once more, I still ain’t ready to ‘cross over the river and rest by the shade of the trees’.
Not yet.
I just received such a notice from my M.C. company. Four identical purchases at once on my card for $50 each. I'm the one that made the purchase on this occasion for Christmas gifts for four different people at the same time. I didn't think it was all that unusual, especially at Christmas time but I'm still glad they do this.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3094536/posts
They have started.
Oregon women files suit against Target
You would be surprised at the number of rural gas stations and mom-and-pop stores that wouldn't accept a $2 bill in payment.
At other stores, cashiers who had never seen a $2 bill would have to call managers before accepting them.
I still have a fondness for $2 bills, but decided it wasn't worth the inconvenience to carry them.
Yeah, all the pious advice to watch your monthly statements like a hawk for the next few years is 100% BS. The only safe thing to do is cancel your damn card ASAP and get a new number.
It’s a real pain to do this, but I’ve had to do it twice now in the last 4 years. Actually, the credit card company automatically did it for/to me at their first detection of fraudulent use.
Did the theft consist of only Target Cards or was it store cards plus Visa, Mastercard, Discover, etc.?
If we had a government that represented the American people the NSA would find out who did this, Congress would issue Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and the US military would hunt them down and kill them.
It was everything including major credit cards, both credit and debit, and I think even prepaid and gift cards. Apparently Target contacted all the financial institutions affected and gave them the account numbers that had been compromised. We use a moderate sized regional bank and they called us to arrange to have our cards changed. They didn't specifically say it was Target that was breached, but it was obvious by the way the whole thing was described to us.
I think you’re right.
I’ve asked some of the employees if they get tired of pushing the card. The answer was always yes. The company gives them a quota to meet.
So they broke into wifi connections between the pos terminals and a base? They started there and proceeded onward...
Just think of the field day they will have with crapcare
I'm not sure they went any farther. They were already getting the data they wanted from the terminals. If they tried to use the channel to compromise the servers they risked setting off tripwire and intrusion detection sensors.
I pay off CC every month...I don’t have a debit card....someday, I will go mostly cashless but not there yet....
Actually, it isn’t much of a pain, unless the card is registered for other purposes so you have to run around changing things.
I plan on getting a new Target card right after Christmas — I didn’t want to get rid of the card during the rush. Probably wait until right after the 75% after-christmas christmas item sale.
I have one card I use exclusively for online stuff, and I change that regularly, and monitor it closely. It is a bit of a pain, but it makes sure that I keep a list of places where I have the card registered online.
I think not a month has gone by this week where one agency or another or company or another has not announced a data breech so how anyone can note only Target’s loss caused their problem I don’t think will have much of a case.
Then there's the problem that this went on for so long and there were no effective checks to catch the flaw.
I'm usually paranoid-careful about the use of credit cards, but this one surprised me. It surprised me that using a company's affinity card could lead to so much other information being mined.
- Those Obamacare website “Navigators” seem to have figured that that credit card and Social Security info they asked for is giving them a big Chicago style “piece of the action” in the Target Stores scams…..
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