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"Also, that’s still was a time when some people still thought shopping online meant their credit card number was more likely to be stolen somehow." Perhaps the
by AaronLBratcher 8y ago
"Also, that’s still was a time when some people still thought shopping online meant their credit card number was more likely to be stolen somehow."
Perhaps they were wiser than we thought given all the data/security breaches in the past few years.
- code_duck 8y agoBut many of the breaches have involved companies like TJ Maxx or Target. Few realized that shopping at a nationwide brick and mortar store was a way a card might be stolen. Also, people thought their card would be intercepted during transmission, not taken from a database. That's what journalists were writing about, I guess.
- AaronLBratcher 8y agoI agree, the database hacking may not have been seen as much as it should have been by the general public. As a programmer I can say for sure that people like me, however, were thinking about it. Here's a link about recent data breaches that may include credit card information. Several big companies in here. https://www.businessinsider.com/data-breaches-2018-4 https://www.businessinsider.com/data-breaches-2018-4