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How do I prevent hackers from stealing my debit card information? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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My wife and I keep getting our debit cards stolen online. We notice the charges and are able to dispute them and cancel our cards, but it sure is annoying.

We don't put our card information on suspicious websites. They're on well known websites like amazon and Facebook.

We ran out emails through a data breach checker and it found nothing.

I don't think there's any malware on our devices.

Any idea what could be happening and how to prevent it?

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[–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Have you used these cards in public? Your information could have been picked up by card skimmer.

At least where I live, it's very common to hand payment cards over to wait staff at restaurants. I had my card information compromised during a visit to Boston several years ago.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Our last card was stolen by someone in great Britain. We're in the USA. I don't think they're being stolen by someone locally unless our information is being sold on the dark web.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Credit card numbers go for something as low as a few bucks a number. I think last time I was rolling around the dark net markets they were $4.

    It's quick and easy to steal. They collect a bunch and sell them and the other people take the risk of using them.

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