What a pain … Discover card has issued Ginny and I new cards with new account numbers.

A few weeks ago I got an email from Discover indicating that we were getting a new account number …

As part of a recent systems upgrade, you will be issued a new Discover Card with a new account number.

At first I thought it was just another phishing scam … but they had all the relevant information correct (last 4 digits of the card number and my full name).

For the past two weeks my daily Quicken download was failing on the Discover account … so I guess it’s legit.

Well, today the new cards came and, as promised, a new account number.  Now I get to go through the hassles of changing credit card number with those vendors I have recurring charges with.  What a pain.

This begs the question … why would they need to issue a new account number?  According to another website I found Discover is doing this to “millions” of their customers.  This smells very very fishy.  Another site I found mentioned a “security update”.  Bill Roper ran into the same thing … except he found someone doing fraudulent charges on his old account.

Methinks that Discover had a security breach recently … and aren’t owning up to it.