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Have you ever been hacked?

halfpint1 — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:05:17 GMT

Just got a call from my charge card. 3 companies in Colorado which I never knew of on line. I told them QVC I heard of and ordered 3 items--clothes. Haven't got them yet. Years ago my son had a huge list from all over so cal. It took awhile to straight it out.

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GAQShopr53 — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:11:37 GMT

Yes and I think it was a co-worker that did it (even though I could not prove it)....I ordered an item from Walmart "ship to store" and she wanted to see it so I sent her a copy of the item via email and when I went to Walmart to pick-up the item discovered someone advanced my card $200. Of course this took place on a holiday weekend and I had to shut down my debit card. I assumed responsibility because maybe my information was somewhere in that email link...Thank goodness the bank credited my account!

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Still Raining — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:16:51 GMT

How unsettling for you. Hope the credit card company froze it and will issue a new one. I had to do that a couple of times.

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I am still oxox — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:44:52 GMT

Twice I have gotten calls from my bank that my card has been used for large on line purchases and I still had it in my posession

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Nightowlz — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:47:32 GMT

Yes at least 3 times. May have been 4. Can't remember for sure. LOL!!! First time someone ripped off my Discover # after my brothers funeral at the funeral home???

We were taking things out to the car from the funeral home where they had a room set up about him. Someone got in my purse during this time. It was the only time it was not with me. Sad but True.

They paid their electric bill with it, went to restaurants & paid using the # but no card??? Someone at these restaurants had to be in on it with the person that stole it.

Nothing happened to the thief which makes my blood boil. I told Discover I wanted the persons name & they asked why so I told them so I could take a ball bat to them. LOL!!! They said well I don't know about that but if you want the persons name you have to go to court to get it.

Last time someone used my Visa I caught them right when they started using it. I saw charges on it when I got online to check my account.

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Nightowlz — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 18:53:30 GMT

@I am still oxox wrote:
Twice I have gotten calls from my bank that my card has been used for large on line purchases and I still had it in my posession

@I am still oxox

That's what happened to me. I also got a call from Visa one day someone was in New Jersey was buying some type of steel. LOL!!! Never been to Jersey. Don't need any steel. It was for over $4000.

I asked since this is happening right now why don't you call the police so they can arrest this person. Nothing was done. So ridiculous. That's why these people keep doing it. They know nothing will happen.

As long as you are in possession of your card you & your bank are not out any money. It's the business that let them charge these things without the card that are at a loss. Costs too much for them to go after the criminals or that's what I was told by Discover Fraud Dept.

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Alison Wonderland — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 19:03:28 GMT

@GAQShopr53 wrote:
Yes and I think it was a co-worker that did it (even though I could not prove it)....I ordered an item from Walmart "ship to store" and she wanted to see it so I sent her a copy of the item via email and when I went to Walmart to pick-up the item discovered someone advanced my card $200. Of course this took place on a holiday weekend and I had to shut down my debit card. I assumed responsibility because maybe my information was somewhere in that email link...Thank goodness the bank credited my account!

I have never had a credit card number appear in a confirmation email.

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NickNack — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:42:23 GMT

This has happened to me a couple of times. The last time someone charged about $400 worth of gift cards at Starbucks. I assume it was gift cards since it was that amount of money. As the credit card company was cancelling my card with me on the phone, they were trying to charge again. The only other time it's happened was many years before.

I wouldn't say my credit card was "hacked" though. I think of a whole system as being hacked. I would say my credit card was compromised.

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chrystaltree — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 19:17:47 GMT

No. Actually, I do not know a single person who has ever been "hacked". If they have been, they haven't told me. People use "hack" to mean a variety of things. So, I'm sure we are talking about here. My friends 90 year old aunt did have a problem with her CC's. Her housekeeper shops for her and pays her bills and the houskeeper was in the habit of buying things for herself. The charges probably went from insigificant to very significant and that's when the 90 year old lady caught on. That's not hacking to me, that's just garden variety theft.

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Financialgrl — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 19:18:49 GMT

More than once. Last time I was having lunch in a restaurant in N. VA and paid by VISA. Got home to a msg left on my voicemail - we are freezing your card due to suspected fraud. Ten minutes after I paid my lunch bill, there was a charge for a train ticket bought at a train station in Kuala Lumpur. No way one can be in those two places 10 minutes apart - and they automatically removed the train ticket bc my charges are almost always in N. VA.

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Alison Wonderland — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 19:39:08 GMT

I don't know if my own devices have ever been hacked, but I don't think so.

I've had my credit cards compromised several times, but the bank and police never got back to me with information on who got my data and how. It could have been through a small or massive data hack, like Target and many other companies have suffered. It could have been through an online transaction. It could have been from handing my card to a server who copied the info. It could have been from a skimmer on a machine.

Texas has had a serious problem with card skimmers on gas pumps. Not just on the outside of the machine over the card reader, but skimmers INSIDE the gas pumps. It's been so bad that now I go inside to pay the clerk inside instead of sliding my credit card at the pump. You can read more about the internal skimming devices here: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article215173755.html

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beckyb1012 — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:33:32 GMT

My Texas city was notified yesterday by the Secret Service that a third party had hacked into our cities system and got payment information for many citizens regarding water bills and municipal court fees and fines. Said the breach occurred between June and Aug. of this summer. The federal gov. is still investigating. But our system has now had additional security measures placed. It was all in the news yesterday and they are contacting all citizens possibly involved in case they missed the news.

Did not say who or where the third party is located.

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Spurt — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:44:28 GMT

@Alison Wonderland

I too live in the Lone Star State and yes skimmers at the gas pumps are indeed a problem.....

The worst case of a skimmer was at a branch office of one of the major banks in town installed right at the banks drive through ATM, it made the local news You would think the bank would check those daily and security cameras too..........

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Shelbelle — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:44:55 GMT

My VISA card several times, I am used to it by now!!

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viva923 — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 21:04:34 GMT

off the top of my head. I know we have been alerted from the bank about a possible problem.

what sticks out for me that i really remember was. Someone tried to steal our car insurance. that was a huge problem for me. I was getting calls from car insurances (major names) asking us what kind of car insurance we need. I told the 1st call i had no idea what they were talking about. 2nd call came,3rd call came in all within half hour of each call. i lost count of the calls. I finally asked what was going on to one of these car insurance people. the gentleman told us that we were in need of car insurance and our name was on some kind of car insurance web site requesting quotes and such. this man told me what site it was. I asked him if he could contact that site and let them know this was bogus problem. he said he would. these car insurance sales people pay $25.00 for each name lead they get off this site. He said he would alert this site. I also contacted our car insurance company (major one) and sure enough someone tried to get policy number and such, a huge red flag was on the policy alerting of problem someone was trying to get info that wasn't us. They put a freeze on our policy no one could get any info about numbers and such. we were still insured but there was some kind of protocall that was put into effect. I contacted our house insurance place and anyone else who could possibly contacted with insurance with us. after 1 week, all the calls stopped.

I also know my facebook account was hacked too. got notified from a young man friend of my family. i changed all the passwords and such on many of my accounts after this breach.

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silkyk — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 22:09:07 GMT

Not "hacked" but the office of our lawyer who handles all our family/estate stuff was broken into and we got an email about it. Made me mad that ALL the most important info of ALL his clients was so easily stolen. We got a new lawyer (this useless one didn't even offer credit monitoring for a couple of years or anything! Not even a good "sorry") and a tip to you all....ASK your family lawyer if YOUR info is safe/encripted/locked up at night.....etc. or not. Now we get to worry about ALL our info out there...... even more info than the credit info!

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ShowMe — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 22:11:56 GMT

No, I haven't been....and hope it continues to be that way.

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NicksmomESQ — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 22:15:50 GMT

Yes.It’s been done to me 3x.Each time I get a call from my cc company.They shut down the card & overnighted a new one to me.

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Spurt — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 22:23:06 GMT

@viva923

Your story is why people should take precautions with junk mail with your name and address----- sometimes thats all the Identity Theft people need to enable them to use your info to run a scam.....

I want to share how there were 4 women at the dumpster at our Condo Complex dressed in smocks they had carts and special sticks going through the trash. When I asked them what they were looking for they said cans/bottles to cash in, but those were in the blue recycable containers right next to the dumpster-clearly labeled, and those were never touched....so what were they fishing for????!!!!! I did notify our Security at the Complex ............

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Montana — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 22:49:43 GMT

Yes. Several years ago there was a small amount on my American Express that I knew I had not made. Probably a trial balloon. They replaced my card.

More recently my Discover card was replaced. Don’t know what happened in that case. I never saw any unauthorized charges.