I was wondering what this thief would do with 40 million credit card #’s? Its not like they will try to fraudulently use several thousand #’s to defraud folks. I’m not that worried about it and yes I am one of the possible victims.
Likely, the information is being sold on Eastern European or Chinese black markets right now. Target is probably busy on Tor trying to buy them back instead of just issuing everyone new debit cards.
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Large computer hacking systems have an incredible ability to handle billions of bits of information instantly. If they charged one dollar fraudulently to each card, it would take a laptop and very little time, and they would reap $40,000,000. If they decided to randomly scam every sixth account or only individual accounts with common names like Johnson and Smith for larger amounts, the stakes are even higher. You might look into putting a fraud alert on your card now.