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Take a pic of your creditcard and get a call from the fraud hotline in 30 mins

2 pointsby jakobjsover 7 years ago

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jakobjsover 7 years ago
The translation is a bit wierd but it&#x27;s not totally Google&#x27;s fault. &quot;Map&quot; in Icelandic also means &quot;Card&quot;. And his name, Dagur, means Day.<p>But yeah, this guy takes a picture of his creditcard at 11:16 (a debit card but they all come with cc numbers as well now), because the numbers were so smudged that they were about to dissapear.<p>Then at 11:36, exactly 30 minutes later the local VISA company (Valitor.is) calls him. It is the emergency fraud hotline and informs him that someone in Indonesia is trying to use his card.<p>He used an iPhone and said the photo just went to his &quot;Camera roll&quot; and probably uploaded to his iCloud backup.<p>His card was immediately closed.
navjack27over 7 years ago
I&#x27;m confused, how did someone get into his iCloud? Or was there a MiTM?