Category - Recaps

Breach at Sonic Drive-In May Have Impacted Millions of Credit, Debit Cards by Krebs on Security. Another day, another data breach. It seems like I’ve been saying this more and more recently. Swagbucks offering some bonus points... Read More →

Uber ready to make concessions to reverse London license decision: paper by Reuters. I mean they’d be silly not to offer to make concessions, especially with Lyft trying to enter the London market. Hyatt Just Announced a New Head... Read More →

Experian Site Can Give Anyone Your Credit Freeze PIN Krebs on Security. More failure by Experian. Uber stripped of London licence due to lack of corporate responsibility by The Guardian. Lyft must be licking their lips at how much Uber... Read More →

Someone Made a Fake Equifax Site. Then Equifax Linked to It. by NY Times. It’s almost impressive how incompetent Equifax really is, that is until you realize the data they are responsible for keeping secure. PayPal Overcharged Me... Read More →

CFPB Takes Action Against Top Notch Funding for Lying in Loan Offers to NFL Players, Deepwater Horizon Victims, and 9/11 First Responders by CFPB. Got to be a special type of awful to target vulnerable people like this. Airbnb Now Lets... Read More →

Kohl’s Announces Amazon Returns at Select Kohl’s Stores by Kohl’s. Starting at 82 stores in LA & Chicago to begin with. How to dodge Plastiq cash advance fees by Frequent Miler. Nice quick tip here, didn’t realize you... Read More →

Mastercard ID Theft Protection by Jeffsetter. Anybody have any experience with this? Charged $50,000 on your Merrill Plus Visa card? Here’s what to do next by Miles Per Day. At least it doesn’t look like a particularly difficult... Read More →

Equifax had ‘admin’ as login and password in Argentina by BBC News. Great work Equifax. Chase Has Made It Easier to Get Your Referral Links by Running With Miles. Glad to see this is easier than annoying system they had in... Read More →

Bumping Vulnerable Passengers Or Passengers At Their Connection City Has Got To Stop by Dans Deals. Should Common Sense Be Regulated? Key point for me is “it’s cheaper and easier to involuntarily bump a passengers instead of... Read More →

Saving $20 to gamble on $300 by Miles Per Day. I almost always take the safe option. If you don’t have a Plastiq account it seems that signing up for an account, adding a bill but not paying it will trigger an extra 200 in fee... Read More →

Equifax Drops Controversial Condition From Free Credit Monitoring Service by The Consumerist. Good to see them removed this clause in it’s entirety. An even more dynamic DCC: You still get screwed by Wandering Aramean. One of the... Read More →

Family forced to pay extra $4,000 for new tickets after Air Canada bars them from flight by CBC News. “Even if I was on my death bed and I needed immediate treatment in U.S., I’d rather die than go on Air Canada”, what... Read More →

Earn 1000 miles through the United shopping portal (targeted?) by Points With A Crew. Anybody else report getting this when not using the portal for a year? Air Canada flight helps locate sailor off Australian coast by CBC News. This is... Read More →

Maximizing the 2017 Wine.com AmEx Offer by The Wellesley Wine Press. Some good ways to maximize this deal. Delta Up To No Good Yet Again! by Point Me To The Plane. I think it’s really important to try and keep Delta honest with... Read More →

This Traveler Thought He Was Bringing Home a Snorkeling Souvenir — Then He Was Arrested by Travel & Leisure. Twitter Bots Use Likes, RTs for Intimidation by Krebs On Security. Interesting that these social botnets are being used to... Read More →