And here I thought that no one in their right mind would ever want to be Mark Sahm.

I got a letter from my credit card company today with a new card attached that had a new account number. I had not lost my card, and it wasn’t up for renewal until next year, so I knew something had to be up.

It turns out that there was a “merchant database compromise” and my old account number “may have been illegally obtained”. While I’m glad this was caught before an order for SW replicas and blow-up dolls showed up on my statement, I would like to know who the merchant was that dropped the ball and make sure I don’t give them my business. Or was this a clever way for the credit card company to say it was them who fucked up?

I guess I will probably never know. What I do know is that all of the things I have auto-linked to that old account number have to be updated now, and that’s a real pain in the ass. But I suppose this is better than knowing there is another Mark Sahm running around out there with the illegal power to buy a kitchen’s worth of new appliances. Cheers.