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Old Nov 27, 2011 | 12:37 pm
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Account numbers have been stolen in wholesale quantities due to data breaches at transaction processors. It's easy to manufacture cards encoded with that account data. Your physical card need not have been stolen or skimmed, and the fraud will not necessarily occur soon after the breach because the numbers are sold.
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