Another financial fiasco.

I'm pissed. I heard on the radio last week that debit card users who had shopped at a certain merchant recently may have had their information compromised (a.k.a. stolen) and that many banks would be issuing new cards. My coworker and I laughed at how funny it is that they NEVER reveal who the merchant is when this happens. After all, if they're going to get you all paranoid by telling you about what happened at this certain store, the least they can do is let you off the hook by telling you WHERE so you can know whether you need to be vigilant in monitoring your account statements...and stop shopping whereever it was.

Scott got his new card yesterday. I got mine today.

I didn't have any real attachment to my old card and number, but all the same I'm shocked at how easy it is for a helluva lot of people's personal information to be sucked out of some central database.