@gdale6 wrote:
There have been cases of such bad apples employed at banks and they have been eventually caught and prosecuted so it is possible. Its also possilble that a hacker has broken into their system and stolen the information and they could be aware or not aware of it having happened.
no one broke into my system, i can assure you of that. i work for a network security company. and like i said in the OP, the last card number that was stolen was never used. never put into any computer. never even left the house. i activated it over the phone, put it back in the envelope and stuffed in a drawer.
i'm leaning towards the bad apple side.
