Re:Booking.com hackers increase attacks on customers
by luma on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:06AM
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For supported cards, this function is built straight into Chrome. Works on my AmEx for example, every time Chrome prompts to auto-fill payment details one of the options is a one-time virtual card that gets automatically handled by Chrome itself. Works a treat!
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Re:Booking.com hackers increase attacks on customers
by jksflkjl3jk3 on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:31AM
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That seems very shady. Surely there must be a financial institution behind the virtual number, no? Is Chrome a white label for one of these financial services?
Re:Booking.com hackers increase attacks on customers
by ta1356356 on Friday December 01, 2023 @11:59AM
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Nothing shady, just an alias to your real account #/card number, its got to be supported by your bank and ties back to a real account. Thought it'd been commonplace for quite a while.
Re:Booking.com hackers increase attacks on customers
by davchana on Friday December 01, 2023 @10:25PM
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nothing shady. you add the actual card number in chrome. chrome saves it. chrome knows this card supports virtual card numbers. at the time of any payment, chrome gives option to autofill card details with actual card or virtual card. if virtual selected, chrome gives/send/syncs that virtual card with issuer/original card.
capital one supports it. Amex too.