Topic: Card details stolen in web hack

[Simon]

The credit card details of up to 38,000 customers of clothing firm Cotton Traders were stolen following a hack of its website, BBC News has learned.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7446871.stm

[Rik]

According to CT, it only affected Barclaycard customers, any that were affected have been contacted, and phone orders were not affected. Oh, and the website is fine now. Presumably they thought that before the hack too?

[Simon]

The report stated that this happened 'earlier in the year', so presumably, if the website was iffy today, that wouldn't be directly connected to the hack, but more likely to be due to increased traffic?

[Rik]

I bet everyone did what I did and went straight there looking for information.

[Clive]

My first reaction was to panic because I flashed my card in their local store on Saturday!

[sam]

argh...