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"Needless to say I canceled my credit card and got a new one."

"In the past 24-hours I did a deep dive into my Amazon account and changed many passwords."

I did not see this line in the report. Thanks. Still wondering what else can be done. If a credit card reissue doesn't solve the problem, I'd take that up with the issuer immediately.

In my experience credit card companies honor charges on the old credit card number with the new card. You’d have to close the credit account and open a new one (or just freeze the card).

Visa, and other payment processors, offer updater services [1] that update your payment details with partner merchants when you get a new card.

[1] https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/visa-accoun...

I still have a hard time believing this is legal, but I had this confirmed on the phone today.

Of course it also blows my mind it’s legal to use an SSN as a form of id, so maybe I am setting my expectations for corporate america too high (ie off the ground at all).

If everyone did this, would Amazon bother to fix the problem?