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Originally Posted by gmw
I don't have stats to compare the odds, but I do know a few of people that have experienced identity theft difficulties (personal or financial or both). And, for myself, I've had my credit card details used on multiple occasions (in two separate incidents some years apart) in circumstances that strongly suggest it occurred as the result of an online transaction rather than face-to-face - meaning the details were stolen, or sold, or given away from an online site. (It may even have been the same site both times if my suspicions are correct, but I have no proof and there are no matching reports of data theft in the databases I've checked.)
I guess only two incidents over a couple of decades isn't that big a deal, but I am very careful with where I use a credit card online so all I can really say is that if you have not seen such incidents then: lucky you.
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This is why you should use different passwords on every account and n password should be a variation of another password. That way if you find out that a site gets hacked, you only need to change your password once.