Posted on 09/11/2024 4:56:56 PM PDT by CFW
Slim CD, a credit card processing service company popular in the United States and Canada, recently revealed that a hack, which took place last year, exposed personal information of almost 1.7 million customers.
“On or about June 15, 2024, Slim CD became aware of suspicious activity in its computer environment,” said a Sept. 6 customer notification letter from the company.
The Florida-based company said unauthorized system access occurred between Aug. 17, 2023, and June 15, 2024.
“That access may have enabled an unauthorized actor to view or obtain certain credit card information,” Slim CD said.
The company said customer names, addresses, credit card numbers, and card expiration dates were potentially accessed by the hacker.
The business estimates that more than 1.69 million customers have been impacted by the breach, according to a filing with the Maine Attorney General’s office. The firm started sending letters to customers from Sept. 6, notifying them about the incident.
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I don’t believe it. Getting hacked is an easy way to cover up them selling the data themselves. Lets see... 1.7 million accounts at $5 an account would be $8.5 million right? Pretty tempting and hard to get caught at it.
That’s very possible. The processor sells the information and makes bank and in addition they transfer money from the middle class to bad actors who are heck-bent on destroying our nation.
Are you suspecting Slim to be Shady?
You ... went ... there !!!
I’ve set up text and email alerts on all our credit cards (we have four) that send me alerts on every transaction. You can set a dollar floor for a transaction amount to send you an alert, but I set it at $0.00 just for the reason you specify.
We bought gasoline yesterday in Radium Hot Springs, British Columbia. A charge immediately came through for USD $183! My wife said “Did you see the price of that gas?!” I immediately called Visa about it. Turns out it was the CAD $250 hold that they place on your card for every credit card transaction. I about nearly died when I saw that. There was a sign on the pump saying they were going to do that, but I promptly forgot it as soon as I put the nozzle back on the pump.
I really like these real-time text and email alerts. They are so fast, my phone is usually dinging with the transaction before I even leave the cash register counter.
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Yeah, I think they are all doing this when they claim to have been hacked. What a perfect alibi and cover for doing it themselves. How would anyone ever know?
Data breachs will only increase in time. Whatever company is breached should be responsible for all monetary fraud.
Got LifeLock for identity theft and have for probably 20 years now. They’ve taken care of a couple incidents.
One credit card that’s used for everything and is paid in full monthly... Never carry over a balance and no link to any bank of mine.
Keep credit freezes on the three credit bureaus which should be illegal and disbanded anyway.
🎼Will the real Slim CD please stand up...please stand up....
These notices are useless without an indication of who the customers are. Presumabaly they would be customers of the vendors who used this POS processor.
I hope every company that is hacked is sued out of business. Because none of them give a rats ass about the harm to consumers.
According to a law firm Slim CD is a processing gateway that handles electronic payments, including credit-card payments for U.S.-based merchants, including retail, hospitality, and restaurants.
Again kind of useless until the merchants are identified.
>>>recently revealed that a hack, which took place last year, exposed personal information of almost 1.7 million customers.
LAST YEAR!?!? Geezers, some companies should just collapse!
I heard entire network worldwide of Caesars casinos went down today. No one could get money from the ATMs or at the Casino Cage.
This sounds like a hack.
I think they could get money if they used a check.
every week Im getting notices of breaches where my personal data has been compromised, WTF is happening
This put our home in a tizzy on Tuesday and made me despise technology more than before.
Before 8am I was reviewing bills and noticed a discrepancy with one vendor, so tried to log in to online banking. For two-step verification, a code is texted to Hubby’s cell. Never got the text. Did “resent code”, but didn’t get a text. I texted his cell but nothing.
Around 8, Hubby checked his email and there were notices about this hack/breach. He began to call to check on things, but they wouldn’t talk to him until he gave them the code they had to TEXT to him. He couldn’t receive texts.
I spent 4.5 hours on the phone with Verizon Tech Coach up to Level 3. They weren’t able to help. (The higher the level, I got a rep with the worst proficiency of English. MADDENING!)
Prepared to shop immediately for a new phone. Then decided to remove the SIM from Hubby’s phone, put it in an old not-activated Blackberry Priv, and then re-insert it in Hubby’s phone. ding ding ding ding — all the missing texts popped into the phone.
Finally could connect with the credit bureaus.
By 2pm, I was exhausted.
Then that night, my dear friend died — diagnosed with a-fib early this year; ablation surgery in July. Pacemaker thingie in August. Gone in September. Vax-related, I’m sure. (She thought so, too.)
A really bad day.
“A really bad day.”
My goodness! A bad day indeed! Prayers for you and your friend’s family.
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