Imagine receiving a notification about suspicious charges on a credit card you haven’t even received yet. How could that happen? While it sounds surprising and unsettling, it's increasingly common due ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – It was an especially unique credit-card-skimming bust at a gas pump: a little-known Federal agency - the General Services Administration (GSA) - got involved with a Central Florida ...

A credit card dump occurs when a criminal steals a credit card number. This type of crime has existed for decades, but it has ...

All mainstream credit card numbers obey a mathematical trick designed to catch the most common typos. It’s called the Luhn algorithm, named after IBM researcher Hans Peter Luhn, who patented it in ...

To avoid credit card theft, it’s not enough to simply keep your credit card in a secure place — you have to monitor your credit card statements and credit reports routinely for signs of fraud. As data ...

The physical credit card has certain information that is consider a sensitive information. For example the card number, expirty and CVV. Since cards are generally in your physical posession, they are ...