My house seems to be having a bad string of luck with respect to credit cards getting stolen. Mt credit card number was stolen this past spring. It was a huge pain in the ass to get the investigation start but even more a pain to remember all the accounts that I needed to update with new auto-pay info. Some of the accounts couldn’t be updated online so i had to send in paperwork to get the credit card changed. I also forgot a couple of things until I got emails saying that the services would stop soon. I never learned how my number was stolen.

This past week one of my housemates had his credit card stolen. He found out about it because he first received a game from GameFly (NetFlix for games) without actually signing up. He then received some roses in the mail. When he check his credit card statement it turned out the person who stolen his number donated money to World Wildlife Fund and ASPCA. All of this seems like a strange way to use a stolen credit card number. This evening I did get an email from the Hideout Theater stating that their website was hacked. They even stated that some of the reported fraudulent charges were to the World Wildlife Fund, ClickInks.com, and Gamefly. At least my housemate knows how his number was stolen.