Identity Theft is Nasty
Recently my card details were taken when a major ticket retailer’s website was hacked.
This is irritating anyway, but I didn’t think about it until my bank phoned to say the card had been used and would I confirm whether a selection of transactions were made by myself. Amazingly (to me, at least) the card details had been used in the United States, United Kingdom and Turkey within a matter of days.
The person(s) had been to the Carphone Warehouse, T-Mobile, iTunes, Tesco Online and a few other independant retailers. Walking through town last week I started to think about the music this person might have downloaded, who they called and send text messages to and what food they were buying.
It’s made me more interested in this sort of crime. As a consumer I did everything right; I used a very reputable retailer with SSL on the order process, I never gave my card to anyone else, I never wrote down the PIN and know I don’t have anything like a keylogger. Yet someone (in an age of CVV2 digits and chip and pin) was able to charge hundreds of pounds against my name. The user can’t have had the correct PIN or CVV2 digits, and the retailers still processed the transactions.
Interesting stuff!
(Oh, and. How did I know it would have been taken in London when I saw it?)
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