Citigroup: 360K Customers' Credit Cards, Not 200K, Were Exposed To Hackers In...
Citigroup, which suffered a massive data breach that exposed hundreds of thousands of credit cards, upped its initial estimate of the amount of customers’ credit cards exposed from 200,000 to 360,000....
View ArticleAttempt Credit Card Balance Transfer, Wells Fargo Cancels Your Account
Howie had a Wachovia credit card, which is now a Wells Fargo card. After a barrage of balance transfer solicitations, he called them up to move some debt from another card over to Wells Fargo. The...
View ArticleCredit Card Thief Changes Your Phone Number To His So Fraudulent Charges Get...
Dan has a story of how his credit cards were stolen from his wallet and the scammer was able to get the account information changed so when the Capital One fraud department called to verify the...
View ArticleTarget Says Hackers Used Stolen Vendor Credentials To Breach System
(dwlathrop)Two months since criminals first began stealing credit and debit card information via Target’s in-store payment system, the retailer is providing the first details on how the breach may have...
View ArticleCredit Card Issuers Increase Limits For Subprime Borrowers; Raise Concerns...
(Jeremy P) As the economy continues to improve, credit card issuers have begun to loosen their vice grip on lending standards in order to raise borrowing limits for consumers. But the move to provide...
View ArticleMasterCard Launches Program To Make Anything – Clothes, Rings – A Payment Device
MasterCard’s quest to make paying for things easier already includes a few out-there systems: verification via selfie for online orders, anyone? And it doesn’t appear that the credit card company is...
View ArticleWalmart Launches Revamped Credit Card Rewards Program
Saving money at Walmart is as easy as 1-2-3 — or 3-2-1? Either way, that’s the point the mega-retailer appears to be trying to get across with its newly launched Walmart Credit Card and Walmart...
View ArticleCostco’s Credit Card Transfer Issues Didn’t Affect Sales, Profits
Costco’s complicated, complaint-riddled switch from an American Express-branded store credit card to a Visa Citi card may have been a big issue for the membership store’s customers, but it apparently...
View ArticleKohl’s Appears To Break Own Policy By Not Refunding $1,500 Credit Card...
When you overpay your credit card, should you be able to get a refund? One Arizona family accidentally paid their Kohl’s credit card bill twice, but the retailer refused to refund their $1,500, even...
View ArticleScammers Buy Stuff With Your Card, Then Trick You Into ‘Returning’ Items To Them
Because there is apparently no limit to the amount of effort someone will put in to being dishonest, scammers are constantly evolving their tricks. For example, it’s no longer enough for someone to...
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