Situations like this are why I never save my payment information anywhere.
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In the situation that payment details are leaked - I presume one must cancel the associated card?
Good thing Epic doesn't have my card information because I only use it for the free games. Now if this was steam I be worried.
That was my thought, too.
It's almost surprising, for good shitty EGS is, that they don't makes you save a payment method to check out the free games.
I'm not sure if I've ever entered mine either. I ought to go check...
That's the ideal, but not always the case. Last time I read the PCI rules, merchants could (still) handle/store card details just as they could before the hands-off approach existed; it just required someone to attest that precautions were taken. I'm sure you can guess how foolproof that is.
At least that's how it's supposed to be. You're really not supposed to store card info yourself.
Don't forget that we're talking about a company that took 3 years to add a shopping cart to their store
My last role was in payment processing and this is exactly how we did it.
Mine was too. We still had a couple systems using the old methods, but mostly had moved to the token system.
You also just get laid off? They took out ~50% of the payments department at my last job
Just don't use a debit card?
Credit cards have all sorts of consumer protections if the card gets stolen.
Hrm, depends. Usually in modern online payment systems it should be impossible for the debitor to have the CVC of the card and hence leaked information could not make actual payments from it, but it could spam the card's number with bogus payments to continuously keep it being blocked.
In any case if you're affected I would recommend asking your bank how to proceed, just to be on the safe side.
That's not a requirement. You can make payments without one though the odds of approval aren't great. If the actual real card numbers got leaked, you need to cancel that card. Also if they actually leaked REAL card numbers, Epic is going to be in deep shit with the card brands.
This article has no real details though so we'll see. I kind of doubt this is legit.
I guess the answer is money, but why would you do any handling of card details in-house. Having a third party process transactions passes to some degree ensuring security onto said third party.
I'd still doubt any risk of full card details being leaked unless the hack goes much deeper than just Epic.
On the other hand, when steam had a leak a few years ago (where you could see other people’s account details after logging in instead of yours) my credit card got exchanged automatically by the bank, as they saw that I had used it to buy games on steam - even though in this „leak“ only the last 4 digits were leaked and nothing more
For me I started using a service called Privacy a few years ago and haven't looked back so far. It's changed how I handle all online transactions. It let's you create virtual cards that are either good once or forever and once it's used by that merchant it's tied to them. So if someone ever did try to charge you that wasn't that exact merchant it gets blocked. You can set daily, and monthly limits as well and pause the card or close it whenever. So I would use this virtual card for the payment on epic and then this happens and all I do is close it out and open a new one. So far I did have 1 place that had my card charged from a place that wasn't them. The cool part is you know who almost screwed you because of the card thats being used. It was a local pizza place and I called to let them know they probably got hacked.
You can’t sound more like an ad haha
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/112010182183098717
Trustworthy infosec folks seem to suggest that this ransomeware group is full of shit. I suppose we will see though.
189GB hack
That's how we're quantifying them now??
I mean oh no, my library of free games...
Press X to doubt.
Glad I never made an account there
Free games in exchange for identity theft. No thanks.
If I only have an account through Xbox login, and my only payment method is PayPal, what kind of risks are there?
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