Alright, so check this out. Myself and one of my flatmates go to the local Stater Brothers to get some restock bits for the apartment. We're both mildly hungry, being just before dinner, so we hurry to get what we need and then head for the Checkout. Our stuff is scanned, priced, and I swipe my ATM card to pay the Seventy-odd dollars...
The transaction won't go through. Is it the card? could be. Swipe again. Same thing.
The lady says why not go to the ATM at the far side of the store and get some cash. I'm thinkin' why not, right? I go try to get cash, and the transaction is interrupted. The receipt says 'Unauthorized Card Usage'. I'm thinkin' 'WTF?!'
I'm starting into moderate panic mode. So I decide, I'll call Washington Mutual. Get things cleared. My friend, and flatmate, says what if it's an identity theft or something?
I tell him "Yeah, cause I just have so much money and stuff"
Washington Mutual has me on hold. Unexpected ammassment of phone traffic.
I finally get through, and it turns out that Visa cancelled some several million Washington Mutual cards that day.
Yesterday, my dad calls me. I'd told him what had happened, thinking something might be in the news. The next day, yesterday he calls and says this letter came for me from Visa. It's a new card and a note that tells how one of their lesser companies "accidentally" leaked out information on a good third of Visa card holders to "unauthorized persons". Mine happened to be one of them. They apologize for any inconvenience.
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