Walmart breach?

[jackio]

Last Friday I awoke to an email from Walmart, thanking me for my order for a $1,700 gaming laptop. I don’t even know what a gaming laptop is, much less want one. As I was getting my credit card to call them, I got a 2nd email saying my order was canceled due to a payment problem, followed immediately by an email from my credit card company, Capital One, telling me my card has been canceled and they will send me a new one.
When I called the fraud division, I asked if the breach was on the credit card or Walmart. They told me they were still investigating but there were more attempts to use the card.
The strange thing is that the laptop was scheduled to be delivered to my own home.
On Monday, my daughter got an email from Walmart thanking her for buying an $800 laptop, also scheduled to be delivered to her home. Her credit card came from Chase. Chase did not decline the purchase.
I am thinking the breach is on Walmart’s side, but the fraud division rep at Walmart told my daughter that it might just be some sort of glitch, that when an order is placed, it is somehow replicated to someone else’s account.
Also, both my daughter and I are very infrequent Walmart shoppers. I think I have ordered twice in the past year and it has been a couple of years for her. I wasn’t even aware that my credit card information was stored by them

 

[Talent312]

In March, a Walmart partner had suffered a breach exposing 1.3 million customers' data.
-- https://www.komando.com/happening-n...sed-personal-data-of-1-3-million-u-s-shoppers
It's also possible that the breach was on your end and the thief just wanted Walmart stuff.

See https://www.businessinsider.com/data-breaches-2018-4
for a story on merchants that also had data breaches in 2018.
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[DrQ]

Very probably you were compromised elsewhere and they just chose Wally World as the vehicle of the crime.

Change your passwords!