Congratulations to all those selected and as ever a thank you for selecting my photo :D

I've just had my statement and it seems that all the fraudulent charges have been done after my visit to Rendo (that's the last entry on the statement) as everything before that is accounted for. Looking back on it I'd hazard a guess that if it was here then chances are it's a man-in-the-middle attack and they're inserting themselves at the point where the card number's going in but not immediately encrypted (SSL has been hacked before now). As I say it's purely conjecture on my part and my last experience of the store here as I'll have to go into my nearest bank and get a print out between the last entry on my statement and now, thankfully I either didn't loose a lot or none at all as my bank caught on pretty darned quick (a few low cost tester charges to see if it goes unnoticed then wham! the big charges start racking up is the usual run on these sorts of things).

A lot of this sounds scarily familiar, just had this happen to me with small probing purchases i.e. credit for a mobile phone contract, small £6 purchase at a rather large hotel in Vegas (I'm not exactly in a position to go on a jolly to the US at the moment). The only real use being here (with a strange glitch on the store front that I thought nothing more of but in hindsight...), Daz3D, Amazon and at a local solicitors (not helping as I'm half way through purchasing my first house, so an added layer of annoyance). I'm not pointing fingers as I'll be going thorough my bank statement and seeing just when these thing line up and where the potential leak is, thankfully my bank is on the ball with these thing and put a stop to it but I still have to go through the form filling malarkey to get the money back and have a new card sent out to me. :sigh:

Thank you for choosing my photograph to go in to this gallery (and sorry for the late reply) and congrats to all those that have been included.

Graham

I shall join the others in saying a very big thank you for choosing my photo, an unexpected and encouraging start to my new year resolution :biggrin: . And congratulations to all the other who have been selected, I'm honoured to be amongst such talent.

I'm guessing it's worse as it's been down from ooo 5.40pm GMT and it's still down and its 7.20am GMT. So only the gods know when it's going to be back up.