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Gift Card Hacking

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the where-do-I-swipe-it dept.

TheSauce writes "MSNBC has this discussion of how easy it is to hack and jack the contents of those lovely Plastic Gift Cards one sees at most Mass Merchants and Consumer Electronics stores. One retailer notes that the odds of this occuring are about at the level of being pickpocketed."

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  1. What are the odds by Alien54 · · Score: 1, Troll
    What are the odds of something like this actually hapening? How many thieves are there out there with the technical know how to pull this off, compared to the public at large? one hundred? one million?

    Most places I know of keep the gift cards at least out of sight, but if they were to keep them out in the open, well that would be sort of stupid, given the scenario.

    heck, I even wonder about the telphone cards, which I never use. I would have to go to a store to look at one to see if they have visible numbers on them.

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    "It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"