Originally posted by KillerBug:

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My card numbers have been stolen from major retailers 3 times this year alone. I'm at the point now that I'm just carrying lots of cash; the risk of a mugging is lower than the risk imposed by using credit/debit cards. These retailers just don't care enough to secure their systems, the card companies don't care enough to require security (they are even making it easier with RFID), and law enforcement rarely does anything about fraud.

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Originally posted by bhetrick:

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Originally posted by KillerBug:

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My card numbers have been stolen from major retailers 3 times this year alone. I'm at the point now that I'm just carrying lots of cash; the risk of a mugging is lower than the risk imposed by using credit/debit cards. These retailers just don't care enough to secure their systems, the card companies don't care enough to require security (they are even making it easier with RFID), and law enforcement rarely does anything about fraud.

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Hopefully now that a judge has allowed a bank to sue a retailer* because of this same type of theft, I think we're at the beginning of seeing these retailers finally getting around to keeping up with their security instead of slacking off like they have been this whole time.


Right now it's at the point where I only use a credit card. I won't use my debit anymore at stores and don't use atm's. If I do need cash I just go to the credit union and take it out. This way there's no direct access to my bank info and if the credit card it compromised at least the card companies reverse the charges and issue new cards.



* http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014...edit-card-hack/

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