News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Privacy API: Programmable Payments. Parent comment

Re:Privacy API: Programmable Payments by _eht on Friday July 13, 2018 @01:23AM (#17520698)
Do you have any information on why Google would block these CC numbers? I know Google, and many others block VOIP phone numbers for example, to discourage rampant account verification, but I can't think of why they would reject a financial reference number.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Privacy API: Programmable Payments by kingbirdy on Friday July 13, 2018 @12:33PM (#17524398)
I imagine it's to stop people from connecting stolen cards to the service and then generating a bunch of other card numbers that are essentially all stolen. It could potentially allow them to use the stolen card more before it was detected.
[ Parent | on HN ]