Researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst have uncovered a critical security flaw in contactless payment processing that allows expired credit cards to be reanimated and used for fraudulent purchases.
When I was a kid, I saw my mom cut expired cards in half when throwing them away.
Ever since then, I always strategically cut my old cards into several pieces, making sure to break up the number, chip, date, name, etc. I’ll throw them away in separate trash cans and maybe wait to throw some pieces out after we take out the trash for a week.
Lol, it’s pure silliness, no one is desperately piecing cards together out of my trash. (In reality, you’d probably just find compromised cards online, or go hit someone with a wrench.)
But this headline makes me feel ever so slightly justified in my goofy behavior.
You never know when even the biggest names in online retailers are going to store your credit card information … and then ‘oopsie’ get hacked or leak the data.
I just use Privacy. Probably not the best choice for personal privacy, considering it’s available through the app store, but at the very least the disposable digital cards help prevent that specific problem
When I was a kid, I saw my mom cut expired cards in half when throwing them away.
Ever since then, I always strategically cut my old cards into several pieces, making sure to break up the number, chip, date, name, etc. I’ll throw them away in separate trash cans and maybe wait to throw some pieces out after we take out the trash for a week.
Lol, it’s pure silliness, no one is desperately piecing cards together out of my trash. (In reality, you’d probably just find compromised cards online, or go hit someone with a wrench.)
But this headline makes me feel ever so slightly justified in my goofy behavior.
I just got a shredder with a slot for cards, shreds the whole thing to tiny bits, infos, microchip, stripe
But yeah if you buy dumb stuff on shady websites online, nothing will save your credit card info from being scraped electronically.
Which is basically any website these days.
You never know when even the biggest names in online retailers are going to store your credit card information … and then ‘oopsie’ get hacked or leak the data.
It may not even be the website that leaks the data. It could be the payment processor they use that has a data breach.
Exactly. Just look up news about data leaks. They are basically happening constantly.
Google Pay/Apple Pay and unique card numbers per purchase, automatically
I just use Privacy. Probably not the best choice for personal privacy, considering it’s available through the app store, but at the very least the disposable digital cards help prevent that specific problem
Got a shredder for that… And then they started making metal cards real common 😒 gotta buy a pair of tinsnips now
For metal cards, at least for Amex, you mail the card back and they handle the destruction for you. I thiiiink Chase does this too.
I have better peace of mind in doing it myself and knowing that it has been done
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibbler
I just use them as picks when prying things apart.
I always just burned mine.