Ever have a credit card number stolen???

[Sacdan]

Sept 17th 2010 someone used my Card to purchase $400 worth of stuff online. I am sure it was one of the Beer related businesses I deal with. I thought it might have been my LHBS, so I notified them. Later, I heard that someone else here had an issue with CHI. I am not sure who is at fault for mine, but I hope that the person gets caught. It was a major PITA to deal with. My wife and I were in Tahoe at the time.

 

[c0bra]

Count me in. $80 fraudulent charge just went through today.

 

[ChshreCat]

Curious. Has anyone on here who had their card number used in the last few days NOT shopped at AHS within the last month?

Also... people keep saying "a couple weeks ago" or something similar. What day did all of you shop there? I'd be curious if it turned out it was all people who shopped on the site the same day. Maybe someone walked in and made off with a handful of receipts one day last month?

I understand people not wanting to point fingers at AHS. They're a great business and the last thing I'd want to do is have them seen in a bad light, especially for something that's way out of their control. But... it does seem like there's a connection there. I don't know anyone outside the brew community here that's having this problem right now. I do a ton of online shopping, but haven't bought from AHS in quite a while and I'm not having an issue.

It really does seem like someone's got the numbers from AHS or their credit card processing company or something, somehow related to them.

 

[JRems]

In response to what day I purchased from ahs , 1/14/11. I beleive I ordered the day before on the 13th but the transaction didn't process until the 14th. What day did everyone else purchase that has had fraud ?
Now that I think about it I think during the checkout there was a popup from McAfee that said the Sites certificate was expired do I want to continue. I had no idea what that meant so I hit yes. Does that have anything to do with it

 

[dabeers]

Randomly stumbled on to the thread, read the 13 pages...add me to the list. I ordered from AHS Jan 31st, got an early email alert from Chase on Feb 8th about suspicious charges (Reg-Repair. com??). Like everyone else has said, I'm not blaming AHS and will still order from them, but this does seem like a lot of people over the same period of time. Card is cancelled, no biggie, but interested to see what happens...Anyway back to brewing my AHS sweet stout...

 

[Mischief_Brewing]

Also... people keep saying "a couple weeks ago" or something similar. What day did all of you shop there? I'd be curious if it turned out it was all people who shopped on the site the same day. Maybe someone walked in and made off with a handful of receipts one day last month?

Bought from them on Jan 28th. Also bought from Chicompany that same day.

 

[diverpat]

Curious. Has anyone on here who had their card number used in the last few days NOT shopped at AHS within the last month?

My card was compromised about a week ago. I made an order from Midwest Supplies, PayPal (brewing related vendors x2), and Drs Foster and Smith, just prior to the nefarious charges. No AHS. Bank of America alerted me of some activity that originated in Zimbabwe to the Fitzgerald hotel or motel or something close to that.

 

[ChshreCat]

Ok. So there's one person who's been hit who didn't order from AHS. As someone said, it could be something else and people on here just shop at AHS a lot. Asking how many people here shop for brew stuff online is like asking how many people on an island eat seafood...

Anyone else get hit who did NOT shop at AHS recently?

 

[jclev]

My order with AHS was placed on 2/3/11.

 

[passedpawn]

Ok. So there's one person who's been hit who didn't order from AHS. As someone said, it could be something else and people on here just shop at AHS a lot. Asking how many people here shop for brew stuff online is like asking how many people on an island eat seafood...

Anyone else get hit who did NOT shop at AHS recently?

Me. I got hit around Christmas. I've never shopped at AHS.

 

[TxBrew]

Let's leave OT out of this thread so it's more clear and concise. Just post up if you have been a victim and any details you can provide that might help.

 

[funkadelicturkey]

Randomly stumbled on to the thread, read the 13 pages...add me to the list. I ordered from AHS Jan 31st, got an early email alert from Chase on Feb 8th about suspicious charges (Reg-Repair. com??). Like everyone else has said, I'm not blaming AHS and will still order from them, but this does seem like a lot of people over the same period of time. Card is cancelled, no biggie, but interested to see what happens...Anyway back to brewing my AHS sweet stout...

the fraudulent charges to my card were to reg-repair.com, as well. Purchased from AHS 1/20 and 2/6, not blaming anybody either.

 

[Walker]

I ordered on 1/28.

Fraudulent charges started showing up on the morning of 2/7.

 

[angolajones]

Thought I would pass this information along. I recently had my credit card number stolen. Not the cards just the numbers. It could have happened anywhere but I recently bought some things online. Hope it didn't happen there. The two places I bought were Austin Homebrewing and Kegconnection. I've had to cancel that card and now have to do some paperwork. Hopefully they catch the person(s). I'm letting you guys know I bought from these two places because someone may have hacked their websites according to some people I have talked to.

I'm not placing blame to either of these companies. Heck I got everything I ordered and very quickly. I'm very satisfied.

Hope this doesn't happen to anyone else.

Jonesy

 

[Walker]

there are two other threads on this right now.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f19/ever-have-credit-card-number-stolen-223663/

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f19/bastiges-223802/

 

[cimirie]

Funny thing is, this exact same thread started yesterday. AHS was a common thread there as well. Then again, this is a brewer's forum and the best place to buy online is AHS, so I'm not surprised it was a common thread. But it is interesting. Hope all works out for you.

 

[Yukon_Skiers]

Add me to the AHS list as well.

Placed my order on Jan 26th, my bank declined a charge yestreday that someone tried to put through to the apple store online.

Had to cancel the card. My new card already came today.

 

[Revvy]

PM Forrest so he has another incident to check into...

 

[Hang Glider]

One time, I triggered the fraud alert myself by buying a pack of altoids at Walgreens before taking off on a road trip, and then a bottle of soda a hundred or two miles down. Those two little charges triggered a lock down and I had to call the CC Company to get it lifted.

This has happened to me as well. Frustrating when I'm hitting someplace and buy a pack of gum, just to get a little cash for the road (debit) then hit the road to see my kids 500 miles away and the next use is declined...(too far away)...


Question, though -
How do you know if you've been hacked? With AHS being a somewhat common link among several here, (and I certainly don't blame Forrest in any way) - and his system may be clean of virus/malware activity - but what if someone actually hacked in and got data? How would you know? I'm just curious - I have no way of answering this myself -

 

[Airborneguy]

I was just thinking the same thing about them being connected. Strange that this has come up so much recently. Maybe his system was hacked or a new employee...

 

[bob1852]

my info was stolen from a small on-line brew place in California about three years ago. He had no clue until I isolated it and let him know....

I know it's a big forum of homebrewers; many (most?) of whom are likely to buy on-line from AHS (so that could be a coincidence), but I don't ever recall any threads about on-line credit card problems, and now we've got three....

I wonder if there was a big hack somewhere (certainly AHS isn't the only company using whatever "secure" server thing-a-ma-jig) - and we're just seeing the on-line beer store side of things....

 

[RegionalChaos]

You all noticing how many of these have a walmart connection???

It's just a handy way to launder the money. Purchase gift cards with it, and you have the cash without the bad bank connections. Then sell the gift cards on craig's for 90%, and you have cold hard cash. Then the scumbags can by their drugs..

 

[Hannable1975]

Think bigger picture folks - I know of FOUR folks who have had cc / debit numbers ripped off in the past week - including myself.

AHS not among ony of the cards uses. ( I DO order from AHS, but call me a nut, I have a card I use ONLY for online stuff ). These cards were all in te local area, and were tapped FAST. Reports filed, banks taking it on the nose, it's a sad commentary on society, but it's modern theft at it's most efficient.

And Forrest - You guys rock.

 

[Catnip_X07]

Someone already mentioned this. My credit card company allows me to generate virtual card numbers, which are good for one transaction. I always use this for any online transactions. It's a slight pain to log into my account, twice, just to have one generated, but worth it.
I recently placed an order with AHS last week and decided to call in this time without filling out my credit card number for the purchase. I gave AHS my hard credit card number, and no funny activity.
Last year, around January 2010, my credit card was used in Beirut at a gas station. Thankfully I got a call from my credit card company asking me about my recent travel history. My credit card and I was in Illinois. Have no idea, how in the **** they got my number, but it happens.

 

[Revvy]

my info was stolen from a small on-line brew place in California about three years ago. He had no clue until I isolated it and let him know....

I know it's a big forum of homebrewers; many (most?) of whom are likely to buy on-line from AHS (so that could be a coincidence), but I don't ever recall any threads about on-line credit card problems, and now we've got three....

I wonder if there was a big hack somewhere (certainly AHS isn't the only company using whatever "secure" server thing-a-ma-jig) - and we're just seeing the on-line beer store side of things....

Well my experience in life has been that 1 occurrence is a anomaly, two is a coincidence but three or more is an epidemic....it just seems too many too quick tied in to transactions there. Forrest and I were just pmming and I mentioned that it occured to me that if any customer info with CC numbers are getting printed out, lets say to fill orders and not destroyed after, it could be outside his company, it could be his cleaning service, or it could just be people who dumpster dive businesses before the trash is picked up looking exactly for stuff like that. It happens even in residential neighborhoods these days, you see people rooting through trash bags all the time. It could be down as far as where the municipal waste is taken. So it's a good idea to make to make sure all credit card info on paper is destroyed by the end of the day.

Heck did anyone see that national story last year about how thieives can clear out the storage buffer on xerox machines, printers, and fax machines and run off copies of everything on there? Everything has a hard drive these days,

Some reporters went to used business equipment dealers (like the one's that turnover office equipment when business go under)in Miami I think and randomly started dumping data from a bunch of randomly grabbed equipment and everything had personal data on it. Including medical records and financial information.

Heck I just faxed over 3 pages of my medical history to the hospital on a machine that had a buffer...I bet you the buffer on the fax machine of the pre-surgical department of that major hospital has all manner of juicy info on it. And now with the big push into electronic medical records these days, all that stuff is floating around, and all it takes is one cumputer illiterate secretary to get a bit of malware on their work computer playing farmville or some crap on their lunch hour to compromise god knows what info...

 

[Yukon_Skiers]

Well my experience in life has been that 1 occurrence is a anomaly, two is a coincidence but three or more is an epidemic....it just seems too many too quick tied in to transactions there. Forrest and I were just pmming and I mentioned that it occured to me that if any customer info with CC numbers are getting printed out, lets say to fill orders and not destroyed after, it could be outside his company, it could be his cleaning service, or it could just be people who dumpster dive businesses before the trash is picked up looking exactly for stuff like that. It happens even in residential neighborhoods these days, you see people rooting through trash bags all the time. It could be down as far as where the municipal waste is taken. So it's a good idea to make to make sure all credit card info on paper is destroyed by the end of the day.

Heck did anyone see that national story last year about how thieives can clear out the storage buffer on xerox machines, printers, and fax machines and run off copies of everything on there? Everything has a hard drive these days,

Some reporters went to used business equipment dealers (like the one's that turnover office equipment when business go under)in Miami I think and randomly started dumping data from a bunch of randomly grabbed equipment and everything had personal data on it. Including medical records and financial information.

Heck I just faxed over 3 pages of my medical history to the hospital on a machine that had a buffer...I bet you the buffer on the fax machine of the pre-surgical department of that major hospital has all manner of juicy info on it. And now with the big push into electronic medical records these days, all that stuff is floating around, and all it takes is one cumputer illiterate secretary to get a bit of malware on their work computer playing farmville or some crap on their lunch hour to compromise god knows what info...

Revvy, I agree with you. This many people with a recent occurring (me included) all with a common variable. Doesn't seem like a coincidence to me.

 

[count_dookie]

I had mine stolen on monday, well I'm sure it was before then but thats when stuff got charged. 4 charges to a CCBilleu.com of 34.04 each. I ordered from AHS, midwest, and a Mary Kay order for SWMBO in the week before it happened. Figured it was the Mary Kay sense it wasn't made on my computer but something might not be right with the system at AHS if that is the common factor.

 

[lazytaper]

I got the call today from my credit card company. I ordered from AHS on 1/31 (stupid snow delayed shipping). I can say without a shadow of any doubt whatsoever that it was a result of ordering through their online site. The card hasn't been used since August 2010 and my computer security is as tight as it gets.

My card company identified the charge as fraud, canceled the card, overnighted a new one, and reported to the three major credit agencies that the card was closed due to fraud.

This was my first order with AHS, it went well and I was very happy with their service.

However, something is clearly going on with their site and they need to do the responsible thing, notify the public and take care of their problem.

 

[itsme6582]

I thought you were posting a stolen credit card number. I was all excited about buying some Blichman's and a kegging setup.

Don't use bank cards for online transactions. If the card is compromised, someone has a direct link to your money. Credit cards offer a buffer. If you don't have a credit card use gift cards.

I hope the initial shock and a little paperwork is the biggest headache you get from all this. You could always RDWHAHB.

 

[SamuraiSquirrel]

WOW, I can't believe I ran across this thread.

This morning when I got to work I had an email from Chase saying that they had blocked several suspicious transactions. I called Chase and sure enough my card number was somehow stolen. They closed my account and changed the number.

Add another stolen card to the suspect list. I have recently ordered brew supplies as well. Not blaming or irritated and still plan on ordering from the vendors mentioned. I too have ordered from AHS and keg connection in the past weeks/months