Hannants hacked

[Guest]

Just had a call from my card company's fraud dept; they've spotted some unusual activity and stopped the card. Suffice to say, the activity wasn't mine, and runs into well over £1000. I won't be using Hannants again.

[AlanG]

Just found mine has been used as well. Not happy as it's £514

[Guest]

Not connected to the Hannants hack but my card was hacked at the weekend. Not happy at all,bank and police are investigating the matter. zzzzzzz

Tony..

[stona]

It seems a lot of cards have been compromised. Several friends and colleagues are in the same boat as me and most of them have certainly never ordered anything from Hannants. I think their has been a major security breach up the banking chain. I've heard nothing in the press or other media which does make you wonder if the true extent of the problem is being,shall we say,disguised.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

I think it is third party and nothing to do with Hannants. They have issued updates stating that they are now confident that no details were taken from them. I think Steve is right, this is an incident that we happen to tie into Hannants simply because they had the balls to announce what they thought was a problem with them. Any central banking system that processes cards is going to be targeted. What annoys me is when they ship these, and call centres holding far too much details on people off shore where the security is lower and the corruption is higher.

I know that data held in this country is never 100% but the amount of data sold from Asian countries that have no cover from the Data Protection Act and no comeback to people who's data has been sold.

[Guest]

I go on a US modelling motor racing forum site called F1M and a few of their lads have been done also , to me this is a worldwide problem I believe not just in the UK , the banks and credit card companys are covering this up without a doubt, there are major problems happening at the moment that they can`t sort out

Richy

[stona]

Rumour has it that a card clearing bank was hacked by some Korean criminals. I'm guessing that would be South Korea.

I agree,Graham,that Hannants deserve a lot of credit for being so up front about a problem that turned out to be nothing to do with them. I suspect a lot of people feel that way which will make a potential PR disaster into quite the opposite.

Steve

[Guest]

My CC info was compromised too, but my bank had already blocked it so no harm done. The thing is that it's more than 6 months ago that I placed my last order with Hannants and still the payment clearer kept my info - quite worrying. Yes, I could decide to not buy from Hannants again, but how would I know if the other E-Shops don't used the same payment clearing service. Or even worse that more payment cleares are just as negligent? That sort of bombs my e-Trust back to new-years eve 1999. I for one do not blame Hannants.

/Daniel

[Guest]

I don't think anyone can "blame" Hannants but I'm fairly sure that some will think "why take the risk?", sad

An attempt has been made on my card too, for the massive sum of £1, the bank spotted it and stopped all non-PIN transactions imediately

I like Paypal, the sooner they get it sorted the sooner I'll be back on their website

[stona]

An attempt has been made on my card too, for the massive sum of £1, the bank spotted it and stopped all non-PIN transactions imediately

I'm told that this is common practice. The criminals sell on the card details to others who will then test the card,usually with a small transaction. If that slips under the radar they will then go for the big pay off. That's when you suddenly find that you have bought flights to India or expensive computer hardware! This according to my brother who is a copper,though this is not his specific field.

I've often wondered how a criminal would pay for stolen card data,presumably not with a credit card!

Cheers

Steve

[wonwinglo]

There are still a lot of loopholes in not only card security but records in general,there was a TV programme recently about how anything in the way of personal records can be had for a price,your medical history will be in a foreign country such as India and readily sold off, and virtually anything else that has been recorded on a retrieval system over the years,somewhere working in the background is a way of accessing these personal details that the criminals get hold of,the computer age of technology is far from secure,if man can place it there then man can also extract it.

Hannants is only one case in thousands that have been hacked over the years.

Wonwinglo.