The post below got me thinking about the recent credit card breaches at Target and Home Depot. I do not know if they caught the culprits or not, but either way in both instances the corporations are offering everyone free credit monitoring. I know ID theft can and does happen, but who really gains out of this? It seems to me if I was the owner of a credit monitoring business, that a "breach" like this would be a huge windfall to my company. I probably just by the nature of my business have employees that would be technologicaly deft enough to pull off something like that. What do yall think? Am I on to something or am I just beinng a paranoid conspiracy theorist?
Ive thought the same thing. Same with antivirus software.
EC,
Wasn't there a movie about an evil antivirus software corporation that everyone trusted, until it was too late.
Dave
My CC companies allow me 30 to 60 days to contest charges that I didn't authorize. What I think stinks is the fact that the retail companies don't come clean about the breach for 6 months...like they didn't know about it 'til 6 months later... gimme a break! :pinch:
Dad (boss 1) and mom went on a trip. Dad used company card in Miami. Server jerk took Cc number. Someone made a card in NYC and went to an ATM over and over taking out $100 each time until card stopped working. Someone else or same person bought a TV system at bestbuy.
My card failed to buy the office sandwiches the same day.
When they returned, mom called to fix it. CC company claimed that I may have gone to NYC while they were gone to do all of this. NyC is a good 6 hours away...
> Ive thought the same thing. Same with antivirus software.
I've been saying that about the anitivirus crowd for decades.
