Friday, February 6, 2009

Heartland Victim?

Citibank just canceled a credit card of mine and issued me new cards. The new cards came with this insert:



Upon calling to activate my new cards, an automated recording confirmed what their security message said "your card ending in xx has been compromised or stolen". The Citi rep who came on the line added that Citi doesn't know which merchant caused the problem, that Visa had sent over a list of account numbers and that Citi was issuing new cards as a precaution.

With all the recent news, like here and here, on Heartland's losing some 100 million account numbers about 2 weeks ago, want to bet that they're at fault?

Heartland is a Company Acting Badly for putting millions of customers at risk.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

I begin to believe that the risk is not only the cause of bad behavior of Inc,s but also the visa system itself which is still 20th century technology I hope they do somthing.