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Subject: My Credit Card was HACKED again!!!!!!!!!

Lyne opened this issue on Feb 19, 2015 · 124 posts


cypherfox posted Fri, 20 March 2015 at 2:50 AM

Greetings,

Just got a bad charge of over $500 to something in greece on a card that I only use here, DAZ, and $5/mo to DigitalOcean for hosting.  I know how DAZ and DigitalOcean store card info; they do it by storing a 'card id' with the payment processor (who has major, major security), so they don't ever really handle the card numbers themselves, and I don't have to do anything.  Not a happy camper; the account had zero in it (I transfer money in to pay for 3D purchases), so they didn't get anything, but I'm going to have to replace it.  Just a few days ago I had to replace my main debit card, as it had several overseas and US charges pile up on it as well.  I also use that card here and on DAZ, but I use it about a million other places, so I had no real idea how it got compromised.

The one today has a lot smaller a surface area... :(

--  Morgan

[Edit: Just to note, I should say that the one today has only been used on those three places in the last (roughly) half-year.  If, for instance, it took this long for someone to finally get their hands on the cards from Hivewire3D, it's possible I may have used both cards on their over a year ago (I can't confirm, unfortunately).  It feels unlikely that it'd take this long for them to get attacked, though.]