Is it possible that someone can steal my credit card information over the internet?
Most likely if your information gets stolen, it is by someone hacking into or planting a virus/malware on a companies files that you do business with. My wife’s credit card got compromised when a legitimate company she did business with got a virus on their computers and it sent out everyone’s credit card info. Mine got compromised when someone hacked in the computers from a university I had attended to. BOA let some guy named Makmoud charge a $2500 airline ticket to my now cancelled credit card (flying from England to South Africa). Your best bet is to just check your credit card info frequently and inform the credit card company when there is a charge you didn’t authorize.
It is absolutely possible. Here are a few rules to protect yourself: 1. Never enter your card info on a site that is not using SSL. You can find out if the site is using it by looking at the website address. If it starts with https:// then it is using SSL. If it is just http:// then it is not. Be aware that only the page asking for your card info may be using SSL, not the entire site, and this is normal. 2. Before providing your card info, check the website address to make sure you are still in the right place. If you are buying something from ebay, then the address should still be something like https://www.ebay.com when you are entering your card info. If it changed to something like http://10.28.46.25 or http://ebay.somethingelse.com then don’t enter your card info.
