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How do I prevent hackers from stealing my debit card information? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Snowman44@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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My wife and I keep getting our debit cards stolen online. We notice the charges and are able to dispute them and cancel our cards, but it sure is annoying.

We don't put our card information on suspicious websites. They're on well known websites like amazon and Facebook.

We ran out emails through a data breach checker and it found nothing.

I don't think there's any malware on our devices.

Any idea what could be happening and how to prevent it?

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[–] Zron@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

A virus scan can only scan for something it knows. If you have something new or esoteric on your device, the scanner may not pick it up.

If you’re not using a reputable antivirus, also consider that the database is wildly out of date at best, or the “antivirus” is malicious on its own.