Perhaps, I've never had a merchant account for a CC. The way that CC numbers work the first number represents what kind of a card it is. Whether it's a Mastercard, Visa or whatever. Then you have a few numbers that tell you which bank or issuer the card was issued by. Then after that you have some digits that identify the actual account.

There's any number of ways in which they can take 4 digits to verify against the ID that the processor gave them without needing to know the rest of the number.

Considering that Mastercard and Visa have forced American issuers to include a chip on the cards, I doubt that the processors are requiring people to store the whole number just to verify that the card is the same one that was used to make the original purchase.

EDIT: Probably the easiest way of handling it is to hash all but the last 4 of the card and then hash that along with the last four in order to generate an ID. It's possible to break that, but the likelihood is rather slim and it doesn't take much processing power to do that.

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I thought the same thing, Fairfox.

If a grown man can lose the plot like this over some bored kid pressing the downrep button on his gaming forum account then God help any youngster that wanders on to his lawn in real life.

EDIT: Afterthought: To be fair he would probably give the kid his house after he'd finished throwing the fit

thats a very disturbing comparance between 2 situations

maybe i should suck up to aussie trolls more. woot, free house!

Right? Nobody likes a funeral.

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And you are an idiot.

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I've seen that info,suppose you and all the cops try and prove it.

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