Wow. It almost seems mandatory to use different purchasing emails to limit fall out, and a credit card layer in between like Apple/Google pay or plastiq.
I have 800+ accounts managed with a password manager
Epic Games hit by 189GB hack, including login and payment info
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#13Wow. It almost seems mandatory to use different purchasing emails to limit fall out, and a credit card layer in between like Apple/Google pay or plastiq.
For almost all my signups these days i use FastMail's email alias feature (built in support in 1Pass now too). I adore it.
The moment someone comes up with that for CCs with no real downside i'm signing up for them too.
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#15This website keeps making the claim that it's a ransomware attack, but neither the original tweet nor Epic's response seem to back that up. Looks like a run of the mill data exfiltration to me. Also this website has the most insane cookie consent flow I've seen yet. Shameful.
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#17Login and payment info tells me this hack is not likely. Maybe a few accounts were sprayed.
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#19Wow. It almost seems mandatory to use different purchasing emails to limit fall out, and a credit card layer in between like Apple/Google pay or plastiq.
For almost all my signups these days i use FastMail's email alias feature (built in support in 1Pass now too). I adore it. The moment someone comes up with that for CCs with no real downside i'm signing up for them too.
Advanced Fraud Protection on the Apple Card for the CC number you type into websites changes the CVC ("three digit security code") randomly at regular intervals (I think it is at least weekly?). Also that CC number is "virtual" in that it is different than the CC number Apple Pay uses in NFC transactions and if you have the physical card different from the CC number in the magnetic stripe and different from the CC number in the EMV chip for EMV transactions. (You can't even get a CVC for any of those other numbers, so can't type them into random websites.) The entire virtual, typable CC number can also be rotated to a new CC number manually with mostly just a "button press".
Some other high end cards have also been learning from Apple Card here and moving to virtual numbers.
So far, I've seen no real downside to Apple's approach to virtual numbers and the Advanced Fraud Protection CVC rotation (which just starts to feel like a 2FA TOTP for card purchases online the way you check for the latest value after Face ID check from the app every time), and it was definitely one of the factors why I wound up signing up for Apple Card in the first place. Hopefully more of the low end cards and mainstream banks pick up the added protections, too.
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#20I've seen this screenshot doing the rounds but the Irish Dept. of Foreign Affairs has confirmed they've seen no evidence of a breach. Not sure how common it is but perhaps just a bluff to get some Bitcoin?
7GB fits neatly on a thumb drive. Could just be a lost device.
That would still constitue a breach. Demonstrating a breach means showing info they should absolutley not have access to.
That said such Irish systems are very imperfect e.g. low wages for IT staff and there was breach/attack of the countries hospitals systems during Covid however the gov acknowledged the attach at the time. So very much possible.
I'd need to see more evidence before I'd take this claim seriously though.