April 26th : After a PlayStation Network outage of more than a week, Sony reveals that malicious hackers have gained access to 77 million users account details earlier in the month, including an unknown number of credit cards numbers.
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In Russia, some bold pickpockets return a "found" wallet to a victim after having scanned credit cards to record numbers, according to a State Department report on crime in that country.
The Bank of Israel released a statement last Tuesday saying that, based on information from credit card companies, only around 15, 000 credit card numbers were exposed and those credit cards were blocked for use in Internet and phone purchases.
Apparently some UK scoundrels teamed up with a crooked gas station attendant to nab credit card numbers from RFID smart card-enabled credit cards.
But now, forward to 2007, Bank of America is offering credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers, many of whom are undocumented immigrants.
But what appears to have happened is a few rogue agents stayed in the system and managed to hack their way to 77 million PSN members personal information, including birthdays, addresses, emails, phone numbers and possibly credit cards.
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Gather any originals or copies of valuable documents, which might include credit card numbers, Social Security cards, birth certificates, passports, bank account information, discs of photos for insurance purposes, and a utility bill to provide proof of where your home is (or was) located.
Criminals made untold numbers of fraudulent charges on customer credit cards.
Sprint Mobile Wallet, which Sprint first announced in October 2010 and launched in mid-November, enables people to charge purchases to their credit cards from their phones without the hassle of punching in numbers or other information.
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Indeed, online retailers face threats on all sides--from the hackers who try to steal those numbers to the fraudsters who buy and resell merchandise with "hot" credit cards.
It holds our plastic money (credit and debit cards and coupons), our cash, sometimes a few coins, business cards, important phone numbers and our personal ID cards.
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