Monzo Fraud sending me a new card... out of the blue

[anon23935806]

Would be a good idea for my gym pass, will save me carrying an extra card for that.

[tomsr]

As long as you don’t need the card for magnetic strip only ATMs abroad…

[kolok]

Hico writers look expensive any cheap models you can recommend

[anon23935806]

All writers I’ve seen are extremely expensive, not sure why. I got mine for around 110£ on Amazon.

[HughWells]

I got mine off eBay - was around £60 if I remember correctly?

[HughWells]

I watched a video from a well respected tech outlet that went to see a “hacker” (organises Defcon hence my interest) with an NFC reader (they called it RFID) and presented the ability to read passport information and the PAN off EMV cards as a new and exciting exploit

[dafzthomas (Dafydd Thomas)]

Looks like it was this:

Ticketmaster Customer Data Breach - The Guardian

Digital bank Monzo was the first to spot customers’ cards were being compromised. It identified in April that the common factor behind a spike in frauds was that every customer who lost money had also had interaction with Ticketmaster. On 12 April it warned Ticketmaster of the issue, but “couldn’t get any traction” out of the company, according to Monzo’s head of financial crime, Natasha Vernier. In the meantime, Monzo contacted all customers who had ever dealt with Ticketmaster – about 5,000…

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