Comment Personal Experience (Score 4, Interesting) 111
My sister was affected by this a few weeks ago, and I wondered that there was nothing on the news about it at the time.
She got a call saying that her account might have been compromised, and that a new card was on the way. Early on the day after she received the replacement card, and before she had even activated it, there was another call telling her that the new account number had already been used to make several purchases.
Clearly this was a serious breach that continued over at least several days, and was not the fault of a merchant, as they tried to claim.