toolness1
Ultimate Member
I ran into a thread on Gun boards, and apparently ar15.com and other forums are reporting this too.
Apparently Wideners customers' credit card information has been hacked. Many people who ordered from Wideners in the last month have had fraudulent charges on their accounts and have had to cancel cards and start fraud reporting/investigation on their accounts.
This includes me. I ordered from Wideners in early march. Last week I noticed a $267 charge from a fashion store in Beijing on my account. Soon after, two random luxury hotels placed pending charges on my account from different states.
I had to cancel my card, but if you have pending charges that doesn't get you immediately out of the water. You usually have to wait until the final amounts come in. Luckily this was a secondary account I have set up just for online ordering. If this happens to your main, or only account, you can end up with no debit or credit card for up to a couple weeks (depending on your bank).
Apparently Wideners is aware but chose not to warn their customers. I'm not here to argue about that, I've had good luck with them in all my transactions. However, if they knew about this and didn't warn their customers, I will think twice about using them in the future.
This could all be a coincidence, who knows. But I want anyone who has used a credit or debit card with Wideners in the last month or two to be aware and double check their accounts.
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Apparently Wideners customers' credit card information has been hacked. Many people who ordered from Wideners in the last month have had fraudulent charges on their accounts and have had to cancel cards and start fraud reporting/investigation on their accounts.
This includes me. I ordered from Wideners in early march. Last week I noticed a $267 charge from a fashion store in Beijing on my account. Soon after, two random luxury hotels placed pending charges on my account from different states.
I had to cancel my card, but if you have pending charges that doesn't get you immediately out of the water. You usually have to wait until the final amounts come in. Luckily this was a secondary account I have set up just for online ordering. If this happens to your main, or only account, you can end up with no debit or credit card for up to a couple weeks (depending on your bank).
Apparently Wideners is aware but chose not to warn their customers. I'm not here to argue about that, I've had good luck with them in all my transactions. However, if they knew about this and didn't warn their customers, I will think twice about using them in the future.
This could all be a coincidence, who knows. But I want anyone who has used a credit or debit card with Wideners in the last month or two to be aware and double check their accounts.
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