Re:Booking.com hackers increase attacks on customers
by rescbr on Friday December 01, 2023 @03:37PM
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> And every time you visit a hotel and hand them your card they tend to make an imprint of the card
I haven't had my card imprinted (or, later, photocopied) in hotels since a long time. Now it's just a pre-authorization.
Although recently I had my credit card photocopied by a car rental agency so they would be able to phone the card processor and cancel the pre-auth manually. Absolute madness.
> the only thing the hotel doesn't have is the CVC
Considering the most recent credit cards that I have been issued, most lost the embossing and now print the PAN on the back together with the CVC, so if some hotel photocopies the card - as nobody have the imprinters anymore - the CVC is there. This also applies to the last embossed card that I have in my wallet, an Amex card, which always had the CVC on the front that wasn't captured with an imprinter. Now with photocopiers, it is.
I haven't had my card imprinted (or, later, photocopied) in hotels since a long time. Now it's just a pre-authorization.
Although recently I had my credit card photocopied by a car rental agency so they would be able to phone the card processor and cancel the pre-auth manually. Absolute madness.
> the only thing the hotel doesn't have is the CVC
Considering the most recent credit cards that I have been issued, most lost the embossing and now print the PAN on the back together with the CVC, so if some hotel photocopies the card - as nobody have the imprinters anymore - the CVC is there. This also applies to the last embossed card that I have in my wallet, an Amex card, which always had the CVC on the front that wasn't captured with an imprinter. Now with photocopiers, it is.