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> usually, my bank tells me at least once a year that I need a new number because my card has been compromised

What!?

I have been shopping online all over the place since the time Amazon was only a bookstore (read: decades ago) and this has never happened to me once.

Are you sure nothing is wrong with your bank? Do you use your credit card in shady places?

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Unless by shady places you mean places like Target

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/target-settle...

Or Adobe

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/10/adobe-to-announce-source...

Or British Airways

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/sep/07/ba-british-...

Credit card details get leaked or compromised all of the time and are a dime a dozen on the dark web.

The most shady places are probably gas stations/gas pumps and restaurants. They like to install card skimmers on gas pumps around here, maybe that is where it originates from. But most of the time, they cancel my card before any suspicious transactions are recorded.

It's good to give those readers a tug. The skimmers aren't usually affixed well.

I do that often and never found one... some can even be hidden inside the slot: https://www.geek.com/chips/this-card-skimmer-is-so-slim-it-w...

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