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ebenZEROONE@verizon.net (Hactar) wrote in news:jfc5sc-i2k.ln1@pc.home:

In article <dla1cdF83tuU1@mid.individual.net>,
Osmium <r124c4u102@comcast.net> wrote:

<chrishaskett2@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Monday, March 21, 2016 at 4:08:12 AM UTC, Greg Goss wrote:

<Snip>

Fifteen years later, my (new) credit card company phoned me ans asked
me about whether I had made recent purchases from Victoria's Secret.
Since I hadn't, they offered to reverse the charges and send me a new
card. Target insisted that their Canadian stores weren't included in
the hack that stole a few million credit cards, but the timing was
right and I didn't use that card for much in those days.

Some 40 million credit and debit cards is a tad more than a few million. >>

40 million cards in a country with a population of 36 million?

Including minors, shut-ins, and cash-only spenders? Yeah, I'll need to
see a cite on that 40e6 number.

40 million appears to have been either the US count or the total North
American count, so that was from a population of over 300 million.
My contemporary cite doesn't specify:

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/12/sources-target-investigating-data-breach/

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XPost: alt.fan.cecil-adams

In article <dla1cdF83tuU1@mid.individual.net>,
Osmium <r124c4u102@comcast.net> wrote:

<chrishaskett2@gmail.com> wrote in message news:4d9dbff0-90ad-4c5a-820d-11bdfe9429e2@googlegroups.com...

On Monday, March 21, 2016 at 4:08:12 AM UTC, Greg Goss wrote:

<Snip>

Fifteen years later, my (new) credit card company phoned me ans asked
me about whether I had made recent purchases from Victoria's Secret.
Since I hadn't, they offered to reverse the charges and send me a new
card. Target insisted that their Canadian stores weren't included in
the hack that stole a few million credit cards, but the timing was
right and I didn't use that card for much in those days.

Some 40 million credit and debit cards is a tad more than a few million.

40 million cards in a country with a population of 36 million?

Including minors, shut-ins, and cash-only spenders? Yeah, I'll need to
see a cite on that 40e6 number.

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