My Debt Card was Hacked...

[ARGunner]

You would be suprised at how easy it is to get something like that installed without anyone knowing. Store owners have to pay to have those machines in their stores most of the time and sometimes less than reputable companies are used to process transactions. Real easy to steal CC info when people dont care.

i pay inside the gas stations. eliminates all chances of card skimmers.

and if my card# gets stolen then, someone will be going to jail (ie gas attendant) since there is no way a card skimmer can be installed on the register without the worker being in on it.

[Blake760]

Charges in Hungary and it wasn't automatically frozen? Time for a new bank. I had to notify Chase I would be in Europe, which countries, and dates, so they wouldn't freeze my card.
I had my card hacked at one of the truckstops near Victorville totalling almost $1200. Back in the account within 24 hours. Chase rocks!

[Fjold]

When my ATM card got hacked, my local credit union caught the fraud, froze the account and I had a new card in my hand an hour later.

[Sheepdog1968]

I've had it happen two times. It's quick and reasonably easy to fix. Personally, I didn't start moving my money around.

[five.five-six]

Within an hour, I saw 3 T&E holds holds on my account, a fuel purchase for $69.48 and a grocery store purchase for $48 all in HUNGARY.

sorry

[dchang0]

i pay inside the gas stations. eliminates all chances of card skimmers.

and if my card# gets stolen then, someone will be going to jail (ie gas attendant) since there is no way a card skimmer can be installed on the register without the worker being in on it.

You'd be surprised how uninterested many cities are to prosecute/investigate these things. I had three of my cards defrauded three months in a row by disreputable employees of Front Gate Tickets (for the Coachella Festival), and calls to the company, police, and even the local papers were all met with "meh." And yet, this was a fraud ring, because other ticket buyers were getting defrauded the same way.

If you order stuff online, there are a few banks whose credit cards have the feature "virtual credit card numbers" whereby they can issue you an additional credit card number tied to your account that is good only up to a certain limit or good for only a few months or good only for a certain vendor. Check with your bank to see if they offer this feature. If they don't demand it, and eventually they all will offer this awesome feature.