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I think I would rather someone have my CC number than my home address (which would be the same as my mailing address).



You're not in the phone book, then? County property tax database? I mean, your home address is not exactly something you can really hope to keep secret.


Why?


Credit cards can be cancelled. Home addresses plus other information could be valuable to identity thieves. Maybe it's not that big a deal, but the idea of hackers (criminals?) knowing my name, email and home address seems a bit creepy.


Perhaps if it were a case of a targeted attack I'd agree Identity theft etc doesn't really scale as well as credit card fraud.




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