Take your fraud alerts seriously

Last week I had a fraud alert message from a credit card company on my answering machine. I've gotten those before, but everytime in the past they've been false alarms, so I didn't get around to calling them until today, when I looked at my statement and saw 14 unauthorized transactions totaling $463. So, yeah, that card has been cancelled. And now I have to go through the dispute process, which will be annoying, notarized legal affidavids and all. But what's more annoying is that I'll likely never know which website that I use had their security compromised for my card info to have gotten "out there". Yes there are other ways for the number to have been compromised, but this particular card is mostly used for online transactions, so it's much more likely that someone was hacked and either didn't know it or didn't announce it. Bastards.