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Old Feb 11, 2009 | 2:34 pm
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Originally Posted by inlanikai
A couple of weeks ago there was a story about a credit card payment clearing house (Heartland Payment Systems) that got breached. Big numbers of cards got potentially compromised. I bet that is the source of all this. I don't think AA per se was the issue as my two cards have not been replaced and are just fine. Rather it is probably where you used those cards and whether Heartland cleared the transaction.

http://www.2008breach.com/
I think you are exactly right. I got a call this morning, and the CSA mentioned that as the reason for needing to replace my card. She asked me to verify several non-swipe transactions, which I did all of them. They cancelled my card anyway, but are fedexing me a new one tomorrow.
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