Discover has a card breach occurring today

[Ricky_D]

Hello all.

Sorry I do not post much, but I do read postings everyday.  Learned alot. Thanks to all.

Today, I received an email from Discover that one of my cards was compromised.  I call, and was told that they had a lot of fraudulent charges in the last 2 days over many customer accounts.   Many of the charges are $.59, $1.99, and $10 or more.  Mine totalled $30 in one day. Most of the charges are from Apple.com/Bill.

So, please keep an eye on your Discover cards (especially SD ones).  Although Discover is catching fraudulent charges, they cannot catch them all. 

My data points on this matter:  I only had two charges back in September from B&H Photo and a small company Proaudio Supply. Both done online.  B&H had a data breach last year and there is no info on Proaudio I can find.  No other online purchases this year with my Discover cards.  Apple.com/Bill charges are $1.99 each.  One charge was from Daisy Days, Shoals, IN for $.59. All charges done today.

[gdale6]

Thanks for the heads up, just checked mine, good so far. Ever since I stopped storing any of my cards with a merchant my fraudulent charges have dropped to nothing.

[Remedios]

Thank you 

[Anonymous]

Good info! Appreciate knowing early in the breach!

[Anonymous]

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@gdale6 wrote:

Thanks for the heads up, just checked mine, good so far. Ever since I stopped storing any of my cards with a merchant my fraudulent charges have dropped to nothing.

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Glad you mentioned about not storing cards with merchants which may reduce opportunities to acquire info for fraud.

[Anonymous]

True, but I have noticed with a couple places that they won't allow you to pay without storing it. I think one place is my Electric and another might be Target if I recall.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Curious_George2]

Maybe this is a coincidence, but I'm seeing strange things on my Amex Delta card today that could be related. 

The card has a $30,000 limit. I haven't used it in a few months. (ETA: The balance is zero.) There are no recent transactions shown, pending or otherwise, but my Available Credit is showing as $29,998.00. Seems like there might have been an attempt to charge around $2, and Amex (correctly) believes it's fraudulent. 

Maybe there's another explanation, but I can't think of what it might be. 

Thanks for the heads-up, OP!

[tcbofade]

Checked both of mine, and both of DWs.... we're good so far.

Thanks for the heads up!

[Mr_Mojo_Risin]

Appreciate it Ricky D! I check all of my accounts daily, multiple times often.

I haven't seen any problems yet with Discover. 🤞