If you've made any purchases online from Widener's in the last couple of months or so, your CC/DC info has probably been hacked.
As for me, I made one ammo purchase from them on 3/7. On 3/14 they charged my account. By 3/21, $7000 of tickets from Quatar Airlines had been purchased, using my card. I thought it was just an anomaly, my bad luck, but then I found a thread of others that had the same problem, after a purchase from Widener's.
I found more threads on ar15.com in the "AK47" thread, and "AK47 ammunition" thread and the "GD" thread. I'm sure with more searching, more threads will turn up. Two or five people may be a coincidence, but many dozens of people that were affected 2 to 7 days after a Widener's purchase is no coincidence.
http://forums.gunboards.com/showthre...as-been-hacked!
Some people that have actually gotten through to them on the phone have been told there's no problem. All Email complaints (like mine) go unanswered/ ignored.
I caught it early and my money will be put back in my account after my bank finishes their investigation (policy). Other banks work faster, some slower.
I'm sort of surprised I didn't see anything here. I'm putting this in the C&R area because a lot of us buy surplus ammo & stuff from this vendor. I have been dealing with Widener's for many, many years. It saddens me that they haven't stepped up and said anything to their customer base. All the the guys that I have found that had their CC hacked will not be doing business with them anymore. I'm sure there will be many hundreds more as soon as they put 2 and 2 together.
And please, credit card or debit card have the same zero liability protection, and has been that way for years. The biggest difference is small payments + interest on CC and one lump sum with a DC. So let's not even go there.
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