Credit Card Information Compromised from Connecting Threads.
#34
Super Member
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Bosque County, Texas
Posts: 2,709
You can request new cards from your bank or credit card companies that cannot be read electronically from a distance. They will have to be put manually through a scanner to be read. However, they will also not be able to be used by you at some of the new quick scan places like turnpikes and drive thru places. They will however be secure in your wallets, purses, etc. from being scanned when you aren't aware of it.
#35
Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Hays, KS
Posts: 75
I'm glad you posted this. I just placed an order with them last week monday (2/11) and come Wednesday, someone hacked out credit card. I couldn't for the life of me figure out where the hacking came from....NOW I KNOW. This is sad, I lover there sutff.
#36
This just spurs me on to get a card with a low limit balance to use for online purchases. I do use one of those metal credit card carriers, but am thinking about returning to cash use in restaurants. I hate it when they walk off with my card. You never know what they are doing with it. I have changed all my passwords to 13 digits. Let the low life hackers figure those out.
#37
Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: at the foot of the Ouichita Mountains, SE Oklahoma
Posts: 273
Well...this is a mystery solved. I had only used my card in two places...an order to Connecting Threads and one to FabricDepot. I got a call a few days later from my bank telling me to call their fraud agency because the bank had been contacted by them that someone was possibly using my card fraudently. I called and 'sure 'nuff' .
I am in SE Oklahoma and my card had been used by someone in San Clamente, Calif to purchase something that cost 4 dollars and some cents. The agency said that apparently the person had done this to see if it was a good card. They immediatly picked up on it that it was a possible fraud, telling me that they had already cancelled the purchase, but I would have to tell my bank to cancel that one and give me a new card.
I never knew which online store was the culprit and it is good to know which one. When I contacted Fabric Depot about it I told them I was in doubt as to who it was..but later they told me that they had put an investigator on the issue in their store just to make sure it wasn't them. Isn't that great? I have a lot of respect for them because of that.
Yea Fabric Depot. <smile>
I am in SE Oklahoma and my card had been used by someone in San Clamente, Calif to purchase something that cost 4 dollars and some cents. The agency said that apparently the person had done this to see if it was a good card. They immediatly picked up on it that it was a possible fraud, telling me that they had already cancelled the purchase, but I would have to tell my bank to cancel that one and give me a new card.
I never knew which online store was the culprit and it is good to know which one. When I contacted Fabric Depot about it I told them I was in doubt as to who it was..but later they told me that they had put an investigator on the issue in their store just to make sure it wasn't them. Isn't that great? I have a lot of respect for them because of that.
Yea Fabric Depot. <smile>
#38
Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 276
I must be a dodo bird because how does one know if calls received about a hacked credit card are really from the bank?
Anyway...I am so glad I caught this thread as I was going to place my very first order to 'Connecting Threads' today on line.
I've had my credit card hacked twice in the past and what a mess!
Anyway...I am so glad I caught this thread as I was going to place my very first order to 'Connecting Threads' today on line.
I've had my credit card hacked twice in the past and what a mess!
#39
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 375
> Customers who had credit card numbers on file after using them at
> Knitpicks.com, ArtistsClub.com, or ConnectingThreads.com may have had
> their information exposed. A file on the Crafts Americana Group, Inc.
> servers was accessible for a period of time before being removed on
> January 25, 2013. The file contained names, credit card numbers,
> addresses, and phone numbers.
>
> Source:
> California Attorney General
This is the e mail I received this morning and I checked my account immediately and yes there was a $500 from New Zealand. They cancelled my card and are sending me a new one. The people dealing with me at the credit card company were very kind and so calm. Obviously they deal with this all the time. I gave them the information that I had received the e-mail and others had immediately e-mailed they had had charges but didn't know where they came from. This was a quilter's site. So that is why I checked. One lady had her credit card company call her but it went passed mine.
> Knitpicks.com, ArtistsClub.com, or ConnectingThreads.com may have had
> their information exposed. A file on the Crafts Americana Group, Inc.
> servers was accessible for a period of time before being removed on
> January 25, 2013. The file contained names, credit card numbers,
> addresses, and phone numbers.
>
> Source:
> California Attorney General
This is the e mail I received this morning and I checked my account immediately and yes there was a $500 from New Zealand. They cancelled my card and are sending me a new one. The people dealing with me at the credit card company were very kind and so calm. Obviously they deal with this all the time. I gave them the information that I had received the e-mail and others had immediately e-mailed they had had charges but didn't know where they came from. This was a quilter's site. So that is why I checked. One lady had her credit card company call her but it went passed mine.
We have a credit card with a very small limit for online shopping,our bank is really good my husbands credit card was hacked and they refund him and informed him right away.
#40
Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Manitoba
Posts: 281
I talked with connecting threads this morning. All those compromised were sent a snail mail letter. I thankfully was not on the list but did have my credit card scammed while down here in Texas. But it was not them and I trust that info. I will continue to do business with them.
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