Yesterday, I went to the bank and found out our bank issues a new temporary credit or Debit card on the spot for people caught in this Hacking Scam against Target customers likely from Russia or Ukraine. So, if you haven't already changed the number on your card and gotten a new number, now likely would be the time to do it before charges start showing up on your card from all over the world. This only applies to people who used a debit or credit card in a Canada or U.S. Target Store between the days of November 27th 2013 to December 15th 2013 when this problem was discovered.
So, if you ONLY paid cash for anything you bought at a Target STore in the U.S. and Canada obviously you are still okay.
Card numbers from Target data breach flood black market
| Minneapolis Star Tribune | - |
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Target store near Target headquarters on Nicollet Mall in downtown
Minneapolis is pictured Dec. 19, 2013. Photo: Glen Stubbe, Star Tribune.
Card numbers from Target data breach flood black market
- Article by: STEVE ALEXANDER and JENNIFER BJORHUS , Star Tribune staff writers
- Updated: December 20, 2013 - 2:24 PM
The Target store near Target headquarters on Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis is pictured Dec. 19, 2013.
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Thieves have been flooding the underground market with credit and debit card information stolen from Target Corp., along with the city, location and ZIP code of the Target store where the card was stolen.
Brian Krebs, the security expert who first
revealed the huge Target data breach on Wednesday, said Friday that the
addition of store ZIP codes makes it easier for fraudulent activity to
escape detection. It allows the people buying some of the hacked card
numbers to make counterfeit cards and use them only in the states where
the original cards were issued, not triggering systems that help banks
detect unusual activity, such as when cards are used out of state.
It’s a new wrinkle in stolen cards that deprives banks of a major indicator of fraud.
“Credit and debit card accounts stolen in a
recent data breach at retail giant Target have been flooding
underground black markets in recent weeks, selling in batches of one
million cards and going for anywhere from $20 to more than $100 per
card,” Krebs wrote Friday on his blog, KrebsOnSecurity.com.
Krebs says he learned about the store ID
being included with the stolen card number from banks that have bought
their own stolen credit cards online to assess their vulnerability in
the Target card breach.
Kelly McDonough, CEO of First Alliance
Credit Union in Rochester, said she hadn’t heard about the ZIP code
information. The credit union hasn’t detected any fraud related to the
Target breach, but is taking the proactive step of ordering new cards
for all its members that shopped at Target from Nov. 27 to Dec. 15, the
time frame of the breach. Those that want cards canceled immediately can
do that.
McDonough said the credit union is taking the safety precaution to protect accounts and give customers peace of mind.
It identified 859 of its 12,600 members
who shopped at Target and has been e-mailing them and calling them
saying the credit union is ordering new cards for them. If people choose
to have their cards canceled immediately, the credit union will do
that, she said. About 30 or 40 people canceled their cards today.
New cards, which cost the credit union
about $5 each, typically take 5 to 7 business days to arrive, but
because of the holidays could take up to 14 days, she said.
“It’s terrible. People are so stressed,” McDonough said.
McDonough said she has about six employees
working on the process, and another two or three devoted to handling
all the incoming phone calls about the breach.
“I wish we could bill Target for this,”
McDonough said. “The reality is … my organization is too small to hire
lawyers to fight to reclaim these costs from Target.”
Steve Alexander • 612-673-4553 Jennifer Bjorhus • 612-673-4683
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