Woke up yesterday to a couple emails about having bought something from walmart in the middle of the night, along with a chase fraud alert. Started with chase and got the card canceled, but it looks like this was purely a walmart hack and they used my chase card that was on file. I got the walmart account all tightened up but I can still see the info of what went down.
The purchase was for a >$20 set of banker boxes, the carboard boxes you put files in. They were to be delivered to a PO Box in a shitty city in the greater seattle metro, seems like coincidence. But I've got a name and PO Box, and that they were delivered today (I won't have time to do a stakeout for the perp picking up this particular item this week). Looking up the name and city, I can see an address for a shitty house associated with the guy, phone number, linkedin, facebook, etc. Doesn't seem like the type who'd hack an account for $20 of boxes.
Also in my walmart account now are 2 other names and addresses, one for someone way out in eastern washington, like almost in idaho, and another in maryland. Not sure what to make of those.
In contrast to nic's deal, as far as I know, I'm not out anything other than the hassle of canceling that credit card and updating the info many places. But I'm pretty curious wtf.
Thoughts? Is it a thing where hackers start with innocuous purchases sent to randoms before doing bigger crap?
@nicname, got any vacation time?