Ooh… ooh… was it professor plum?

Everybody’s all worked into a lather about the newest “big mystery”. Apparently, in “payment processing blind shenanigan news” (sort of like a celebrity blind except involving your money), some unnamed payment processor got hacked and it’s a whopper.

You know what irritates me about this? The fact that everybody knows it happened, but there are no answers forthcoming about who it might be.

Why all the mystery? Why is there no official word on who’s the responsible party?

To put it another way: some jackass – most likely due to their own callous disregard for our data – has once again laid an egg… but we, those directly impacted, don’t rate high enough to even know who it might be? Maybe I want to write a letter… Maybe I’d like to publicly mock them… Who exactly are they trying to protect. If the answer is anything but “us, the cardholder”, then all the secrecy is bullsh*t.

Anyway, sorry about the rant. It’s just that all the buzz finally capped my “I can’t take it anymore” threshold.