Humblebundle.com credit card theft?!

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yeah if something like this would actually get out there, which it would, it would be the end of humble bundles. I don´t think it would be worth 5000 bucks

humble bundle DOES NOT have your credit card NUMBER... idiocrasy overulled you once again ! do you know how payments work?

oh mew

Same. My card was locked for 24h for having multiple small payments within a short time.

me too.

Same story...

My bank account once was suspended for spending $300 in ~$10 transactions in one day.

The next day my Paypal account was put on hold for spending $250 on Steam store.

Clearly somebody doesn't want me to spend money on video games.

When Google was celebrating their 10 billionth app downloaded, they were offering major apps for $.10. I think I spent a total of $6 on the sale, but apparently banks do not appreciate 60 $0.10 transactions, so they immediately canceled my old card and sent me a new one.

+1 here.

That is true, we are going to do some further searches. She always paid through Amazon Payments, while I prefer Paypal. I have not yet had any problems, but I thought I should at least give a heads up to the steamgits community

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I wouldn´t do this. If someone tried to buy something for 5000 dollars, I would definately keep he security measures up

this is what i thought, you cannot pay via credit card, u have to pay via paypal, amazon, google and bitcoin, so its one of those at fault

Since we are in Denmark, why would we make payments of 5.000 dolars at a travel agency and a few other bucks at a local restaurant in the USA. Manipulate an ATM in Copenhagen, and then run to america and use it there? Somehow the bank's idea with the payment seems more adequate... Then again, we have to ask around Amazon, since there seems to be the problem itself

Normally when a credit card is stolen the thief makes some trial $1 purchases to ensure the card is valid. They just flagged humble bundle because of the amounts. When my card got stolen they made some $1 purchases on iTunes and my bank called me.

nein!

PayPal er din ven.

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This is what happened, most likely. Me and one of my friends have also had their info used (It's very common. 1 in 3 people, I think?) and with mine, they made a ten dollar donation to charity to test it and with my friend's, they used it in one of those soda machines that take debit cards to test it.

because it is the only payment we make towards USA, and it seems to correspond to the general area of the payments. Other than HB, we use the card in our own country

My thoughts exactly, it looks like the bank is just assuming that the humble bundle was a scam site.

Normally when a credit card is stolen the thief makes some trial $1 purchases to ensure the card is valid. They just flagged humble bundle because of the amounts. When my card got stolen they made some $1 purchases on iTunes and my bank called me.

That's what I do, one can never be too sure

Wait, I thought HIB only used payment processors. The don't handle any credit card data do they?

Paypal, Amazon Payments, Google Wallet, Bitcoin.
Humble Bundle do NOT handle credit card payments themselves.

This. Lots of small payments will look suspicious as that is one way of stealing money from your account gradually without you noticing. However you know what these payments are for and as others have said, Humble Bundle uses 3rd party payment services to handle the transactions and so never has access to your credit card details.

This is almost certainly the case. A lot of frauders will make very small purchases to verify that the card is still valid before trying to use it for a big purchase. This is probably why they flagged the humblebundle purchases as being related to the fraudulent charges. I can't say with 100% certainty that it's not, but is extremely, EXTREMELY unlikely.