Some kind people have set up a new site which tells you if your credit card number has been stolen.
Once you’ve used it, you may want to pass it on to any friends who you think would benefit from the info it provides.
Some kind people have set up a new site which tells you if your credit card number has been stolen.
Once you’ve used it, you may want to pass it on to any friends who you think would benefit from the info it provides.
Or it’s a way to harvest credit card numbers… My corporate firewall reports the site as “phishing”
Gerv,
is this irony or can you guarantee that it’s not a phishing site?
Pete
Ernst, Pete: Look at the form tags in the source of the web page.
Judging from the Google search results (for ismycreditcardstolen.com), this site *might* be benevolent, and I see how Gerv might support their cause. That the site transmits the sensitive data over plain HTTP kind of defeats the purpose though…
Ah, B.J. I didn’t notice, thanks for the info!
It’s a nice site but not quite new. The first time I’ve seen it was almost a year ago: http://holisticinfosec.blogspot.com/2011/06/you-cant-patch-stupid.html
Once you’ve filled in your credit card details in a random site like that, the answer must be: YES.
However like Gerv, I suggest you try this site.
It’s perfectly safe (just check out the in the source)…
It might be useful if we could localize it. ☺
Yeah, I’m not entering a damn thing into that site. =)
I am confident that the probability of anyone stealing my credit card numbers is very low — much lower than average. I am confident about that partly because I majored in math and know how to crunch the numbers but mostly because I do not have, and have not ever had, a credit card.