January 07, 2009

Another Day, Another Replacement Credit Card

*sigh* A couple of months ago, they sent us new Visa cards with different account numbers. An accompanying letter explained that our account numbers may have been "compromised" at a merchant's site. Never told us which merchant. Well today, we received two new Discover cards in the mail. Same thing. Our account numbers may have been compromised at a merchants site. This time, they didn't change the account numbers, but I guess the new expiration dates will make the old cards invalid. It would be nice if they would disclose which merchants these are. And, it would be nice to know how they were "compromise". Were the sites hacked? Did an employee steal the information? Was it a large site like Amazon, Target? Or a little Mom and Pop place. So many questions. So few answers.

Posted by Valkyre at January 7, 2009 05:22 PM
Comments

The fact they're not giving you any information tells me it's their fault and their system was compromised.

Posted by: Lynne at January 8, 2009 03:51 AM