HiBid hacked...do they have your credit card number?

[addertooth]

I suspect that if we, as the end consumer, get an email anytime some company that has some of our personal information gets hacked our inboxes would be overflowing.

BTW, if you want to loose some sleep, you can always check to see a list of some of the times your data has been stolen ( I am sure this is not a complete list) check out the site haveibeenpwned.com and enter your email address.

Yep, for sites like this one (and others like welding, engineering, engraving, racing, etc), I only use "junk level credentials", as they are likely to be weak points. Then for all of my more important stuff, logins and passwords (and two-factor authentication) are very different. That way if my low-level identity is hacked, they only gain access to my "fun stuff", but not my serious stuff. I have actually met people who had the same login and password for their fun stuff, and their financials... scary.

 

[woodchucker]

I suspect that if we, as the end consumer, get an email anytime some company that has some of our personal information gets hacked our inboxes would be overflowing.

BTW, if you want to loose some sleep, you can always check to see a list of some of the times your data has been stolen ( I am sure this is not a complete list) check out the site haveibeenpwned.com and enter your email address.

so first. I don't even enter my own data in sites that report things like this. How do you know that this is not a phishing site?
Second, that site reminded me.. I use a tool called keepass it's free, I generate a password for every login. It stores passwords,
Consider that helps. Never use the same password. https://keepass.info/

 

[markba633csi]

I got a call a little while ago from an "Amazon customer service employee" saying they have detected fraud on my account.
It's a scam, don't fall for it. They only want to get your CC info. They say to cancel the fraudulent purchase to go to another website- forget it
I hung up and checked my account- nothin'
-Mark