Did this affect newegg canada? Because I bought something from there last month.
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Tiger Direct used to be good. Don't know how it is anymore I use Amazon.
deploy depot, canada computers, memory express.f
B&H is personally my favorite place to get PC parts, no sales tax, free shipping, good prices. Not a huge selection like Newegg but they have pretty much every new component out there right now.
Easily saved 500 bucks when building my gaming PC last year.
Amazon has gotten A LOT better for PC parts over the past year, they even do 0 interest 6 month financing for some items which is great if you're trying to build a great rig on the cheap over time.
I'd recommend TD, but they don't seem to have anywhere near the selection they had back in the day.
Does this effect people who paid with paypal as well?
Shouldn't the visa cards be protected since they use their verification system?
Haven't used newegg in years but I had a store credit card. Had. Just closed it. Piece of shit company can fuck off with the hat they came on.
and i bought something just this last sunday
fuck
Damn that sucks, I used to buy from Newegg quite often. But this is making me second guess them.
Yeah I haven't bought something from them in years, it's time to close my account
People who use their technical skills for douchebaggery instead of something good are annoying.
Goto digikey and build your own, otherwise not really.
real men build their own cpu from scratch out of an aluminum block using a rubber mallet and Elmer's glue.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59ag78/newegg-data-breach-credit-cards
So this is the same group that hacked Ticketmaster and British Airways. According to my friend, whose father works in Cybersecurity (and told me about the Newegg thing before it hit the news) over 200 sites have been hit this time around. Although, I don't have total confirmation on that yet.
Crime like this is so petty. You aren't hurting a big company like google or amazon, you're hurting ordinary people who probably saved up for a while to buy what they wanted to enjoy a computer build. It's just sad really.
Wait what? What happened to them other than the breach? I haven't ordered from them in like 5 years
You buy a new CPU on amazon it probably isn't new. It's probably a cpu someone got, tested for overclocking capability, then sent back when it failed.
It shouldn't.
Nope, that verifies that particular purchase is you. The attackers could go ahead and use the card details elsewhere for smaller purchases or on sites without that verification mechanism.
Is there any actual proof that they are using / selling credit card data?
Not that it makes it any more acceptable, but they could use it to blackmail newegg in the near future, especially since these articles are out now and people are aware of it.
This is probably the most stupid thing I've ever heard someone say about Amazon and I've heard people defend their treatment of warehouse employees.
That doesn't change the fact that someone might want to avoid using Amazon because of its pisspoor labor standards.
this is why god invented automated auditing
Amazon has a huge problem with returns like this. Are people just unaware of this or something? If you're buying a "new" cpu it doesnt have to actually be new, it just has to pass their "new RMA" process. They do a brief inspection on the returned item and if it looks fine they reseal it and it gets repackaged as new.
Like this is common knowledge at this point for anyone who does shit with computer hardware on amazon, if you've used their return process you should know that they basically just take recently bought stuff back no questions ask and in large quantity, did you think they just ate all that cost?
Do you think that they fake the factory seals on CPU boxes, or?
Also, even if what you're saying is true, the likelihood that you'd be getting a returned one would be super low due to the massive volume they push product at.
Does this affect me if I bought from their eBay seller?
Often the complete factory seals won't even be there, with just a cursory re-seal job and people who don't know better will just see sticker keeping the box closed and some shrinkwrap and assume it's a "factory seal", it's one of the ways you can tell. The massive volume is offset by the large number of returns a few people will conduct. It's not really a problem for the lower end and more bulk workstation stuff, mainly enthusiest K series cpus and remember that on the intel like, most of the lines arent even overclockable, further offsetting the volume.
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