Bah

[unixronin]

Strong circumstantial evidence indicates my debit card has been compromised.  The first clue was when I downloaded bank transactions to Moneydance, and there was a transaction purporting to be a debit to PayPal that didn't show up anywhere in my PayPal account.

It should go without saying that all appropriate steps have been taken.

Keep your eyes open, folks.  Read your bank statements carefully and question any transactions you can't identify.  There's a lot of thieves out there.

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[cipherpunk.livejournal.com]

Good luck with this. If there's anything we can do to help, say the word. There probably won't be, but — I'm a big believer in the principle that says it's the moral obligation of the good to stand together for common defense from evil.

Theft is evil.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I appreciate the offer, but I think we're covered. There only appears to be the one fraudulent transaction so far, both PayPal and Citizens Bank have been alerted and are investigating, the compromised card has been killed and a replacement is on the way, the PayPal account is locked down, and I have dispute affidavits en-route from both.

I'm curious how it got compromised, though. Assuming the whole transaction wasn't forged from top to bottom, it appears someone (possibly someone with a Hungarian email address; PayPal wasn't entirely clear about that part and I was a little too rattled to question them more closely) used the card data to buy a RapidShare account.