Keep that to yourself, it's a secret. Edit your post.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/home-depot-admits-56-million-cards-hit-by-security-breach-1.2770827
Home Depot admits 56 million cards hit by security breach
The hacking attack on retailer Home Depot may have affected 56 million credit and debit cards in Canada and the U.S., the company admitted Thursday.
Criminals used unique, custom-built malware to steal numbers from Home Depot’s point-of-sale systems, it said. The do-it-yourself retailer has 180 stores in Canada and more than 2,200 in the U.S.
LOL!!!!
Staff Seargent, "Whoa Tommy, did you hear about the Home Depot credit card Malware?"
Senior Detective, "Yeah, we are hiring on an extra two guys."
Ha Ha...
Anyways, you know this means everyone who is a credit/debit card junkie that puts hundreds of charges over a few months is going to get a few extra unknown charges. They will never know the difference.
It also means that if Home Depot was hit, and 56 million cards were taken, that there are probably hundreds of other big retailers leaking data right now...
Yeah, security is a strange issue. There are very few people in the world who know what they are doing. I mean very few...
Here is one of the worlds top security agents. You may have heard of him. He invented McAffee virus scanning software.
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/02/features/dangerous
Dangerous: an in-depth investigation into the life of John McAfee
Twelve weeks before the murder, John McAfee flicks open the cylinder of his Smith & Wesson revolver and empties the bullets, letting them clatter on to the table between us. A few tumble to the floor. McAfee is 66, lean and fit, with veins bulging out of his forearms. His hair is bleached blonde in patches and tattoos wrap around his arms and shoulders.
To give you an example of how few know what they are doing. There is a guy inside Google who found a breach in linux systems that effected every single machine since 2004, and he announced the vulnerability I think it was in 2012 or something. That's 8 years with a wide open vulnerability just sitting there for anyone.
What?
Yeah, I guess in a sense, it is a huge confession that when you punch your card into thier machines, they are storing all the data in a centralized database, for thier own personal usage later.
Card numbers and all...
Otherwise... why on earth would you set up a credit card machine to interface with anything other than the single register taking the order?
Knuckleheads...
You know what I hate, is those stores that ask you for your phone number or your email address. As if I answer my phone or check my email anymore. Fuck that...
One time I punched my email address into a spanish blog. The ONLY spanish blog I've ever interfaced with. Within days, the entire continent of South America was spamming me incessantly.
Including Walmart.
If I didn't pay cash everywhere I go, maybe they'd get the hint. I only go into a store for one item and one item only, and that's after I am certain all the other stores in my area, including mail order from china don't have it cheaper.
I don't care how much feng shui and marketing they pump into their corporate image. I DO NOT ENJOY YOUR SHOPPING EXPERIENCE.
Give me a flea market or an asian food market in the heart of china town. That's shopping.